Illora Spain Metal palm-sized item that looks like a door plaque or something.

The design on the front seems like a coat of arms.

The spanish inscription translates to something like" the guards of the farmhouse, etc" and the location is from Illora Spain

Looks to be brass and hand carved with a knight's head on top.

The back has 4 tabs with a hole.

my uncle gave it to me in 1972 and I just started researching some things he gave me.

This is 7 different pieces of metal covered in many different colored porcelain. It has ALL of the metal Ribs/Frame pieces that the bolts attach to on the back of the sepparate pieces. I also have 2 of the original brackets that it is hung on. There is one bolt and nut missing on the blue and white bottom part where it attaches to a bracket behind it. All of the other bolts and nuts are original to the sign and no others are missing. I am also starting to think that the bolts are brass but I'm not for sure about that yet. I counted 11 chips in the main visible areas of the sign ranging from a cm to a inch and a half and one along the side of one of the red T's is about 2 inches long but very slender and then there are a total of 16 brackets attached to the sign and probably 8+ have porcelain popped under the bolts or brackets.   The 2 large pieces that are white and have no lettering are in very good shape with the above mentioned chipping under the brackets except for the one that has a 1.5" chip above the red letter D along the top of that piece. The red lettering is perched on brackets about 4 inches off the white fields and the Dutch Boy center piece. The red lettering itself is welded to 2 long brackets that are coated in white porcelain, that run the entire length of the red lettering and they are attached to the brackets that are perched on the white porcelain. This entire piece has chipping in several places along the long brackets and then there are several areas of chipping in the red letters.I just went out and took pictures, with a tape mesurer by the chip, of all of the chips. I will send those to you if you request them. The blue and white bottom piece has a total of 3 pieces plus brackets that it attaches to and the curved pieces take it to be about 4" above the White pieces below it.I have not been able to find a chip on any of the 3 pieces and because of this and because of the color retention, I would rate it right below a 9 out of 10. The last piece that I will describe is the most breathtaking and in the best condition. The Dutch Boy center piece has no visible flaws that I can find! All colors look to be perfect and there are no chips. I think that is partially due to the fact that there are no brackets that attach to this center piece. The red lettering Boy above this section also seems flawless. I would rate the center section at a solid 9 out of 10 and maybe a 9.2. 

8 sided sort of octagon shaped silver jewelry box. Has 4 raised bent outwards at the bottom feet. Underside of box has a sort of rough texture with following words: trade mark 1883 f.b.Rogers silver co. 752. This trademark has a picture of a crown with what looks like a Celtic cross on top of it and a few lines under the crown. All in an oval shape. On the sides of the box there is a picture on every side which makes up one big picture,as in to say each picture is not its own but part of a whole. Looks like a counrty setting. The front is a man in a long tailed coat holding a what looks like maybe a hat and a stick. The man has hair like the white Washington wigs. He is handing a bouquet of flowers to a woman. The woman has her hair in a bun and is wearing what looks like a ball gown.beghind these two figures sits a road and then a field.on the upper left of this panel thee is a tree and in the right there is what looks like a house with maybe a flower pot on a stand and a smaller tree next to the house.going around the box to the left the next panel hast the road in front with the field behind it and the rest of the tree that started on the front.the third panel consists of a road going straight back and then curving round a bit with a tree off to the left center of the panel.both sides of the road are feild to the edge of the panel. The 4 panel is is feild from the bottom halfway up. There is the road in the far background so its very small. And then some sky.the 5 panelthe road starts in the front and cir les around to the back of the panel. There is some trees off in the distance on the leftmost side of the panel.the near side of this panel. Has a double tree growing at a left ward angle with the other tree is straight up and down. There is something in the middle of this feild that sort of resembles a headstone but cant really tell.the 6th panel is mostly the corner of the road that circled on the tithe panel. There is feild on the left side of this road and in the back ofthis pic there sits another house larger than the one on The front panel.there is a tree poking up from behind the house and the top half of this panel is sky.the 7th panel is a stand of trees with grass growing up around them and the road going thrue it. There is some sky on this panel also.the 8th and final panel is the road starting in the left bottom corner and swwooping to the right then coming back left again towards the first panel. A bend in the road I guess. There is grass bottom right and middle left of this panel.there is some small trees beyond the bend in the road and looks like the rest of the house from front panel.the lid is also 8 sided and has a little lip that juts out to trap and open the box. There is a single picture on the entire lid.a woman iin a dress playing a harp while a couple is dancing on the left. They r dancing on a giant floor rug and there is a window behind the harp player with drapes on it.on the top left there is an oval looks like a window and in the very top left there is a sqaure looks like a window. The woman playing the harp is sittingin a chair.the inside of the box is lined with red velvet. The lid is on a hinge.

This was my grandmothers. A friend gave it to her when she was young and told her it was old.I can't find anything that looks like it on the net. Any help would be great!

I don't know if I would say it's in poor condition exactly, because I am no appraiser, but there is a significant chip and an area where the wood has come off (near the yellowish bottle). In addition, my cat has tried to use one of the piece's three legs as a scratch post, without any visible success, and the bottom tier is warped somehow. I do not know if that is a recent defect or not.

No clue how old it is, but I mostly want to know its history. Can someone fill in this information for me? I need to know if it's okay to chunk it prior to moving.

I purchased 23 of these Royal Bavarian 22k Gold Plates at an auction at the end of last summer.  I really haven't been able to find an appropriate value for them.  They have the Royal Bavarian emblem on the back (see pic) and a stamp saying warranted 22 Carat Gold.  The outside of the face of the plate has roughly a 2 inch band of 22k gold plating.  The plates are in good condition with only minor abrasions to the gold in the area closest to the eating surface and wear on the back ring where the plate sits on a table.  Any info on the value of these or time frame they were made would be appreciated as I would like to sell them in the near future.  Thank you, Jim.