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Your photo shows three items, a plain fiddle pattern Victorian dinner fork, the meat skewer and an old English-style sauce ladle each decorated with a family crest consisting of a pair of eagle’s wings conjoined.

None of the families you mentioned use a pair of wings as a crest or any part of a crest of heraldic badge.

On the other hand the Blows, the Moens and ...

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Oh, name and shame my ancestors.If you would like, I have no problem with that. I don’t mind even if they were hanged for treason.

But I suspect either there were greens or fishers or kingsleys.

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Thank you. So your paper knife is actually a meat skewer!. They used to make them in sized bundles of 10. They were used to secure the joints or game birds for carving in the dining room. and they hung on a hook next to the stove.

Because they were usually damaged. by the carving knives often wielded by footmen or even a well-oiled host, electroplate would have been a ...

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Yours is a fine batchelor teapot, although apparently missing a finial or handle for the lid, made by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths of 112 Regent Street but nothing really to do with the material listed in this enquiry or the hithertofore mysterious EB Willis.

Today our search engines have improved and we now know Edward B. Willis was a Rochester, Kent, UK watchmaker a...

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