Handleless, tapered cylindrical cup or tumbler with three low-relief panels depicting a golfer mid-backswing atop a coordinate globe, a seated putti holding a cup, and a second putti pushing grapes into an ewer, all in rectangular scroll-bordered reserves. Plain rim and base; inset, slightly convex bottom. No marks.
Oversized, slightly rounded and tapered cylindrical tankard with applied molding and zigzag band at rim and cut-card anthemions above a wide base molding with central zigzag band; flat bottom. Hollow, D-section, exaggerated S-curve handle tapers to a shield-shape terminal with applied cast putto mask; semicircular vent at top underside of handle and cross-shaped vent in terminal underside. Struck once below rim to left of handle "IB" in raised serif letters in a crowned shield. Centerpunch on bottom underside.
Small, full-tang, three-tined fork with slender baluster stem, integral bolster and rounded bone scales inlaid with a large brass dot on front and secured by two brass pins. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife [marked "FOR A GOOD / CHILD”] and fork), 1986.0531.092-.093.
Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang, inserted into tapered bone handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with steel pin through side. Metal is discolored, rusted, bone is yellowed, crazed, and has long crack down one side.
Blade is engraved: “DERBY SILVER CO” over an anchor.
Maker is Derby Silver Company, active 1873-1933 in Connecticut.
Small, blunt-blade knife fitted with a sheet steel guard and stamped banded bolster, and into a faceted wood or horn handle, tapered rectangular in section, with rounded-over end. No marks.
Open keyhole-shape, wire formed bottle opener advertising Coca-Cola. Made of bent wire with ends locked in a tongue-and-groove joint at bottom center of elongated triangular handle; inside edge of loop is pinched with three equidistant tabs to pry off crown caps, while front and back of handle sides are stamped flat with "Have a Coke" and "DRINK Coca-Cola". No maker's marks.
Flat double dome lid, straight tapered tankard with chair-back thumbpiece, low fillet and applied molded rim and base; quart size. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle with tongue-and-pip below the three-knuckle hinge secured by a dome-headed pin tapers to a hooded ball terminal; no struts. Indecipherable touchmark ("F[?]") inside bottom.
Double dome lid, straight tapered tankard with scroll thumbpiece, low fillet and applied molded rim and base; pint size. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle with single large drop below the three-knuckle hinge tapers to a fishtail terminal; no strut. Faint touchmark of what appears to be the raised serif letters "WC" inside bottom.
Small, three-tined fork with slender baluster stem fitted into hardwood handle, tapered rectangular in section, with chamfered edges, rounded-over end and inlaid brass dot on front; no bolster. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife [marked “FOR A GOOD BOY”] and fork), 1986.0531.090-.091.
Double dome lid, straight tapered tankard with projecting crenate lip, chair-back thumbpiece and plain body with applied molded rim and base; quart size. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle with tongue-and-pip below the three-knuckle hinge tapers to a hooded ball terminal; no strut. Circular "I.W." touchmark of John Will at center of incised circle inside bottom.
Small knife having a blunt blade with integral bolster fitted into a bone handle, almost square in section, rounded-over at end with an inlaid brass dot on front. Mark or front side of blade stamped “TOKEN OF / AFFECTION” in incuse serif letters between scrolled motifs. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.086-.087.
Double dome lid, straight tapered tankard with chair-back thumbpiece, low fillet and applied molded rim and base; quart size. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle with tongue-and-pip below the five-knuckle hinge secured by a dome-headed pin tapers to a hooded ball terminal; no strut. Octagonal "B D" touchmark attributed to Benjamin Day inside bottom.
Straight tapered mug with high, wide fillet, molded rim and projecting flat bottom; quart size. Plain, hollow, shallow D-section, S-curve handle with spatulate or flat heel terminal; no thumbrest or struts. No touchmark apparent.