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And so, people with some experience of silver can help me with this.
What is this thing?
I spotted it in a flea market when walking around today.
Does it have something to do with keeping toast or some other breakfasty bready thing warm and perhaps carrying on a service tray?
What is this for and what is it called?
Anyone?
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almost looked like a snuff box of some sort, looked that up, but found it is an antique victorian biscuit box…you can see it on http://www.ifranks.com/silverware/biscuit_boxes/j5483.html a description somewhere else read:” opens at the top and folds down to expose two separate chambers that are covered with elegantly pierced grills. You raise the grills to reveal your lovely baked goods which have been kept warm by the hearth! ” interesting and your thought was very close
It’s rather Obvious.
It’s a standard issue coinpurse for every member of the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest.
Good one, momoften.
Bad joke, basilorat!
you could probably use it to hold jams and jellies for breakfast as well. Very nice piece.
I have seen similar devices at antique road-shows. To my understanding, it is a device for keeping toast warm.
My mother received one of those for a wedding present many years ago and we always called it “The Soup Tureen,” though obviously it can be nothing of the kind. At the estate sale we discovered that it is actually a bacon warmer.
Hot water is poured into the receptacle below the tray, the tray put down and hot bacon laid on.
You wouldn’t want cold bacon, would you?
I’m pretty sure it’s a high end device for keeping toast warm.
Reminds me of Alton Brown’s mantra: never buy a device or utensil that does just one thing.
RF: except the fire extinguisher! (I’m an Alton fan too) :)
I would have said a Cyberman’s valise…
It is a ball-hopper for playing Victorian Bingo.
Hmmm… Cybermen… Victorians… Institute of CK… all in one entry. Who knew?
So… it is a folding biscuit box.
May I guess that it is a portable strawberries and cream (clotted hard cream) tureen or carrier for posh picnics. Scones would be in another container. Could be used on the English sideboard for breakfast. We still use the term sideboard in our house.
I am thinking that this was a thing brought in on a tea tray or a breakfast tray. It would contain biscuits or scones or toast, etc.
It seems to be identifiable as a “folding biscuit box”.
Toast servers are usually open racks on a flat tray, but this could be for scones/biscuits. As for the coinpurse, the ICKSP would have them in vermiel. The best place to check and see what it may really be is Replacements Ltd.
Ah, you are correct, Father Z. There are such folding biscuit boxes at the following locations:
http://www.saanjhi.com/products/Antique-Victorian–Sterling-Silver-folding-biscuit/p_10239?atc=gbslv
http://www.saanjhi.com/products/Victorian-Sterling-Silver-shell-folding-biscuit-bo/p_10242?atc=gbslv
I was confusing it with this Victorian Folding Strawberry Set
An unusual design antique silver plated strawberry server with sugar bowl and cream jug. When not in use the set can be folded away. Lovely art nouveau design. Circa 1900. Maker Fenton, Russel & Co, Edinburgh. http://www.waxantiques.com/servingdishes.htm
Curious, how much was it selling for?
I believe it’s for kippers. Ask Fr. Longenecker.
FrCharles: what Alton does not mention is that a good C02 extinguisher can be used as an emergency chiller. CO2 comes out at approximately -110F (although quickly disperses in air). Need a good beer chilled?
That said, DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, KIDS! (And it’s expensive to keep refilling, and the fire inspector will give you funny looks when you have so many requests for C02).
I do believe that momoften has it right—it is plainly a biscuit box. It couldn’t be for toast. For that you need a toast rack: http://www.oceanlinermuseum.co.uk/Windsor%20Castle%206%20piece%20toastrack.jpg.
A toast rack allows air to circulate around the toast, keeping it crisp; it also permits it to cool so as not to melt the butter and so permit the toast to turn into a soggy, oily mess. Putting toast into one of these boxes would just accelerate that process.
It’s an early used tea bag holder
Which its for the toasted cheese, you slab-sided lubber.
Also remember in the UK biscuit = cookie or cracker.
Thomas: Which the silver object for the toasted cheese is for the spirit stove, ain’t it? Does this look like it goes on the spirit stove, ya grass-comber?