Topic: Fancy Pickles Jar ID help needed!

[chopin-liszt]

 
We are probably being a bit too joke-y for somebody who does not have English as their first language - so;
We're sorry, D. if we've put you to the extra trouble of translating things you don't need to. 

On the other hand, your English is absolutely excellent - I am already planning to adopt your expression of "privatising" objects from eg. cruise liners. It's far better than the one I've heard before, which was "liberating" them.
Not that I approve of pinching things or folk who do it. I just like the expression you used to describe it. 

[Ohio]

Personally (although the shape is very different) I would agree its as labeled...for pickles. At least in the U.S. the hooks are for holding a untensil used to remove the pickle from the bottle. As for the shape I think pickle relish certainly fit as well as small gherkins. Since there are two hooks I am wondering if one held a spoon & one a fork. As for age I suspect its mid 20th century, but from where I have no idea. As for the shape I found  cylindrical pickle jars from both the U.S. & GB. URL shows some from the 20s although the one shown is far more upscale to say the least. 

http://www.sha.org/bottle/Typing/IGCo1920/page94.jpg

[mitko07]

Hello and sorry for my late response!
Thanks guys for your attention and information!

Sue, my English is OK and getting better - thanks for the compliments!
I live in US for several years now but I am Bulgarian national.
Paul, there are not many white metal alloys that are silver plated and I assume it is alpacca or very similar because it is hard metal.
Here is a picture of plated WMF alpacca mark- i/o is for normal thickness of the plate!
Still hope to find more info regarding the and it looks like it is not going to be easy. Probably I should google it more .
All the best! D.

[Paul S.]

thanks D.          I can see the WMF over the upper case G.............and that ostrich running 'hell for leather' .       Wish you luck with your searching.

[Paul S.]

I do pick up the odd piece of EPNS or similar flatware, and found this knife yesterday.        Appreciate we shouldn't post non-glass items here, but it was just in view of the connection with alpacca plating which we'd been discussing - this one has a steel blade inserted into the plated handle.          I assume that Arthur Krupp was the same as the German Engineering giant Krupp  -  just wondered if anyone might put a date to my knife, please, and thanks for looking.

[mitko07]

Hello Paul!
Yes it is the giant Krupp and I believe it is made sometime between 1910 -1920.
The steel blade has a double man mark must have been made in Solingen.
I think that  later flatware made by this company was made in Berndorf, Austria and you can find a lot of theese made during the WW2 period.
this link has an example:
http://www.usmbooks.com/berndorf.html
All the best!D.

[Paul S.]

hello D - my thanks for taking the time to reply, and appreciate your informative reply with link.       Good to have a little more detail on this piece.        We had better leave this one quietly now, as this forum is supposed to be for glass only.       Again, my thanks.