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Antique Questions Forum / help me identify...please
« on: March 22, 2009, 09:18:35 am »
have a butter dish, and it looks very old to me. I just wanted to know if it was worth holding on to or not.
I'm no professional, so bear with me;
The butter dish appears to be made of brass. It has that goldish look to it. It seems to be changing colors, my guess is that its some sort of oxidation.
I bet when it was brand new, it was as yellow as the sun...but now it's turning a darker color. You can still see the brass color, but you can also see a brown color. If you look close enough in the light at the oxidized places on the butter dish, you can see tints of green and sometimes red.
As I said above, I am not a professional. The inside of the dish seems to have less oxidization to it, probably because it wasn't exposed to enough air.
I've looked for marks or brands that the company would have put on it but nothing. The company didn't imprint it's name or anything.
The only clue that I have to go on is;
the handle (where you grab to lift the top off) looks to be shaped like a pineapple.
I just wanted to know how old it was and who made it.
I'm no professional, so bear with me;
The butter dish appears to be made of brass. It has that goldish look to it. It seems to be changing colors, my guess is that its some sort of oxidation.
I bet when it was brand new, it was as yellow as the sun...but now it's turning a darker color. You can still see the brass color, but you can also see a brown color. If you look close enough in the light at the oxidized places on the butter dish, you can see tints of green and sometimes red.
As I said above, I am not a professional. The inside of the dish seems to have less oxidization to it, probably because it wasn't exposed to enough air.
I've looked for marks or brands that the company would have put on it but nothing. The company didn't imprint it's name or anything.
The only clue that I have to go on is;
the handle (where you grab to lift the top off) looks to be shaped like a pineapple.
I just wanted to know how old it was and who made it.