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Title: Pressed double salt with serpent or dolphin handles
Post by: neilh on January 28, 2023, 04:25:14 PM

Wonder if anybody has seen this before or can attribute it.
It is a double salt with a dull sheen and low density of 2.43g/cc, pointing to post 1880 northeast
The point of interest are the handles, serpent, snake, dolphin, I'm not quite sure.

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Pressed double salt with serpent or dolphin handles
Post by: NevB on January 28, 2023, 06:24:19 PM

I wouldn't be absolutely sure it's English, perhaps French/continental, the handle would usually be called dolphin or dolphin-fish.

Title: Re: Pressed double salt with serpent or dolphin handles
Post by: neilh on January 28, 2023, 06:31:43 PM

You could be right, it came in a job lot of pieces, a mix of French, German, northwest and northeast England, several of which I can't identify.