One for a Fishy, I think. I love Archibald Knox silverware but nearly missed this in a local auction because it is hardly photographed at its best…
I just wondered if there was any (good) reason why it would be entered into a sale without being given a good clean first when it could have looked like these gorgeous examples…
Interesting hallmark…
Looks like Glasgow 1928, but it doesn’t have the thistle. And the lion is all wrong for Scots sterling; it ought to be rampant. But if it’s Birmingham 1930, the F is wonky.
Are you saying it’s a mucky fake, Fishers?
Soo xx
No, just that I would like to see it cleaned up a bit so the hall was clear. At present it looks like the hall from two different offices in two different years. The city mark definitely looks like Glasgow’s fish-and-a-tree thing whose name I forget, but the sterling lion looks English rather than Scots.
It’s very beautiful, & still fetched a good price.
It would need a specialist to clean it because of the enamel. A wipe over with the Goddards won’t do it, & the sonic bath wouldn’t be great either… 
I do like buckles & brooches
Carinthia.xx
Sling it in dilute nitric for about four minutes, which won’t hurt the enamel, and then you polish it up by hand with Tripoli paste, jeweller’s rouge and elbow-grease. That’s how they’d have had to do it when it was being made.
Of course, Fishy, but they would rather the buyer bore the cost & responsibility of that!
Proffers Pitchers
Carinthia.xx
Yes, please.
Soo xx
Interesting, thanks, I wouldn’t have a clue, I just love the designs. The auction listing has it down as marked Liberty & Co, Birmingham 1905, I’ve no idea how expert an opinion that is though - possibly not at all!
You could use a fine lambswool polishing wheel on a Dremel, these days.
How was Berwick, & the meal?
What did you have?
Puts feet up & waits…
Carinthia.xx
I withdraw; Birmingham 1905 it is. That anchor has been fair mucked abaht, though.
L & Co was clear enough…
To you, maybe! I couldn’t make out anything under all that muck (and wouldn’t have known what it meant if I had been able to.)
But you ain’t the Cellar silversmith, so no shame.
I think it’s a hideous little artefact;- )
try holdin’ yer trousis up with Planck’s constant.
Berwick was fab, Carinthia. I enjoyed asparagus and polenta chips with (look away, Gusly One) a smoked egg yolk emulsion followed by a beef roast…in my defence I don’t eat a lot of meat, so I left half ovvit and swerved pud. Mr Bee ate everything in sight and hazz scoffed cornflakes, just now. Sigh.
Soo xx
Chances are I wouldn’t order it unless I had seen other people’s plates, but I see the point of it, and can well believe all was fab.
No Limpet-bag, though. [sad meepity]
Well, maybe it was cheating because I knew he did most of his work (including Old Man Liberty’s tombstone design) for Liberty of London.
This is a great reassurance to Mrs Planck.
It was like a rich, smokey mayonnaise, Gus. But, better 
Bedtime forran bee. Good nights, Cellarites,
Soo xx