{"id":9397,"date":"2015-01-11T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2020-04-19T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T14:03:18","slug":"victorian-silver-jelly-server-c-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9397","title":{"rendered":"Victorian silver server, c.1850"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This ornate sterling silver serving piece has a carved mother of pearl handle with an etched monogram. It was made during the Victorian period (1837-1901), most likely in England. Although I can not say for certain, its asymmetrical form suggests it to be\u00a0a fish or jelly server. It measures 8.5 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance you may wonder why this seemingly &#8220;perfect&#8221; server ended up in my collection of inventive repairs, but upon closer inspection, you can spot\u00a0a subtle repair.\u00a0The mother of pearl handle cracked in half at a\u00a0fragile stress point and was reassembled\u00a0using pins and a silver mount. Also, the neck has been replaced with two wires clumsily soldered to the blade.\u00a0In my opinion, the pattern of the four pins on\u00a0the front and the wonderfully shaped brace\u00a0on the back only enhance the original design, adding a unique charm to\u00a0this piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7916-Version-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9398\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7916-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7916 - Version 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7916-Version-2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7916-Version-2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9399\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7919.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7919\" width=\"400\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7919.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7919-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7920.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7920\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7920.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7920-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9401\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7923.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7923\" width=\"400\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7923.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7923-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a server with similar form, described as a fish server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-4.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-4-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-4-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/Continental-Silver-Victorian-MOP-Handled-Fish-Slice\/372523077697?hash=item56bc1b1041:g:Di0AAOSwzd9cBvvp\">eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ornate sterling silver serving piece has a carved mother of pearl handle with an etched monogram. It was made during the Victorian period (1837-1901), most likely in England. Although I can not say for certain, its asymmetrical form suggests it to be\u00a0a fish or jelly server. It measures 8.5 inches long. At first glance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[17,120],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serving","tag-silver","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15206,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions\/15206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}