Beautifully engraved Victorian era antique silver plate Napkin Ring with a spray of flowers and leaves. Deeply etched floral and leaf design on brightly polished silverplate.
This silver napkin ring was loving used, as evidenced by the many surface scratches in the silverplate. The top and bottom edge also have tiny little dings from use and storage. The inside of the napkin ring has a smaller amount of use marks and the silverplate is still in very good condition.
By the 1890's, every member of a family had his own napkin ring made of either sterling or plated silver. These were almost always identified with an initial or monogram, usually placed within a garland or scroll. If the napkin ring had been a gift on a birthday or some other special occasion, the date was often added, usually in script lettering.
These napkin rings were cylindrical and quite wide +1 1/2 inches. About 1910 napkin rings became narrower, about an inch in width, and looked even smaller because they were nipped in at the middle. Decoration was sometimes applied. A small, inch-wide napkin ring of plated silver made around 1910, for example, was encircled with the stems, leaves, and buds of the large, open poppy that ornamented it.
Monogrammed on the back with elegant engraved initials of "F. W. P.". The monogrammed silver plate napkin rings measures 1½" high, 1¾" in diameter and weighs 1.8 ounces.
A944 - Antique Silver Plate Napkin Ring Victorian Flowers & Leaves - Monogrammed "F.W.P."
$35.00
