These marks are on a set of 7 different sized skewers - swan skewers?
I suspect they are plate rather than silver and might originate from Chester.
Thanks in advance.
And yes, these are silverplate from Sheffield. Not sure what the circled “C” signifies, but it’s not Chester.
Thanks for your speedy response.
Any idea on the date? Is the ‘C’ significant?
What would the set of 7 expect to sell for?
Thanks again
It’s generally not possible to date silverplate items, since there’s no regulatory system in place for them. All you can do is guess, based on when the company was in business. In this case that’s a very broad range, from 1823 to 1984! The style sometimes helps, but these could have been made any time during that same range. They don’t “shout” that they come from a specific period.
Silverplate items like these meat skewers have only decorative value, since there’s virtually no silver in them worth mentioning. Just looking around on eBay, similar skewers which, like these, are fairly generic in design (i.e., no “interesting” elements to the design, like sword hilts or molded animal figures), seem to sell for about $25 each. A matched set of seven might boost the total value somewhat.