Fancy serving spatula or something else?

[ThatSouthernBoy]

Hello everyone! New member with some items I got no clue on. I recently bought a group of knives and trying to find out more info on them. In the group was this fancy antique piece. I’ve never seen anything like it. Was this rehandled or original? I asked a group about the proofs and came up with G H James & Co, and 1899.

Thanks for any help! All opinions and comments are welcome! What an awesome site!

 

[Aardvark]

That's very nice. Looks like ivory, doesn't it? Dunno about the "serving spatula" part; seems to narrow to me.
I can't help directly, but I uploaded the bolster into Google Lens, and got a bunch of hits, but I couldn't read the results very well, and I can't match them with your pics.
If you'll entertain a suggestion: take an enlarged picture of each character directly from overhead, and combine them side by side, then upload the composite image to Lens. (Hope that makes some sense).
Rabbit hole warning: this site has a LOT of examples of silver stamps, English and otherwise: https://www.silvercollection.it/englishsilvermarksxgdue.html

Good luck, and thanks for upgrading your membership from the beginning.

 

[ThatSouthernBoy]

That's very nice. Looks like ivory, doesn't it? Dunno about the "serving spatula" part; seems to narrow to me.
I can't help directly, but I uploaded the bolster into Google Lens, and got a bunch of hits, but I couldn't read the results very well, and I can't match them with your pics.
If you'll entertain a suggestion: take an enlarged picture of each character directly from overhead, and combine them side by side, then upload the composite image to Lens. (Hope that makes some sense).
Rabbit hole warning: this site has a LOT of examples of silver stamps, English and otherwise: https://www.silvercollection.it/englishsilvermarksxgdue.html

Good luck, and thanks for upgrading your membership from the beginning.

Thanks for the comment! I’ll have to try that. It definitely is ivory, old stuff at that.

 

[Blackriver]

Those are English hallmarks for the manufacturer of the piece. Definitely silver and ivory.

 

[jc57]

As far as the function, that looks like a straight spatula, used primarily for spreading frosting or icing on cakes. Also called a frosting spatula, icing spatula, or baking spatula. I recall one of those around the house (and used for that purpose) when I was growing up, though I think it just had a regular wooden handle, not ivory.