Anyone know about silver hall marks?

[Spindle]

I'm astonished that so many, so called, experts can get it so wrong !!

If only 18th century greaseproof paper had survived to confirm your theory :wink: :roll: :roll:

 

[nanscombe]

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I have a similar item left in this house which I bought from the old village grocer. It's not a letter opener, although it can be used as such, but a knife for slicing greaseproof paper which grocers and butchers used to wrap butter or chops etc in olden times before Health & Safety stopped it.
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.. and no item has ever been repurposed to do job it was not originally intended for.

Screwdrivers were not originally intended to open cans of paint, or lever up floorboards, but they work. :?

 

[monkeybiter]

FWIW to a now concluded argument my son recognised it as a meat skewer as well.

 

[RogerP]

FWIW to a now concluded argument my son recognised it as a meat skewer as well.

That's that then!

Off now to find summit else we can have a fight about