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To: JustaDumbBlonde

This manufacturer was in bussinesfrom about 1860 until about 1910. Many of their works are in museums.


10 posted on 12/09/2007 4:12:54 PM PST by eastforker (.308 SOCOM 16, hottest brand going.2350 FPS muzzle..M.. velocity)
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To: eastforker

At Victorian dinners, little individual salt dishes with tiny spoons were at each place setting, iirc. Not shakers.

There was a larger salt dish placed in the middle of the table, from which guests took some salt into the tiny individual salt dishes. Sitting “above the salt” meant a place of honor closer to the host, and “below the salt” was for the less important guests.

I think these are the tiny individual salts. In a set, there would be a larger dish as well, with a lid.


16 posted on 12/09/2007 4:21:11 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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