Description
Just that They came here during the second WW. There's a story behind it, but my mother in law can't remember it!.
Category
Metalware
Medium
Bronze & Rosewood
Distinguishing marks
Has a Buddah on the handles and it says "Siam" underneath him.
Condition
Good
Size and dimensions of this item
6 inch blade on a 10 1/2 inch knife.3 1/2 inch prongs on a 9 1/2 inch fork
Date Period
Before Siam's name was changed.
Weight
Unknown
History
Just that it comes from Siam around WW2.
eBay Auction Link
Price Paid (If known)
unknown
For Sale?
No
Photos
Re: Siam Bronze & Rosewood Carving Set
Unfortunately schmells, sometimes unless you ask a specific question, nobody answers. In this case you have most of the information already, approx where it came from, material, age.
The photo is too blurry to make out details when enlarged, so it's difficult to see more to tell you.
1) does it take a magnet to the metal parts? (i.e. brass undernieth a nickel coating?)
2) I am assuming the shape on the handle is a budda but I can't make it out well enough to tell.
- High end carving sets would have had a fitted case and a sharpening file piece. That's either missing here or was never present. The silver ones usually had some sort of marking on them as well.
- In the late 40's through the 60's a lot of items of this nature were imported enmass to the americas and richer euopean countries to help bolster the sending company's economies. I know my parents had a set similar in form to this, with the third piece but no fitted box, in teak wood. They didn't pay much for it and those pieces today would be about $50 in good shape.
Yours, missing the box and any other pieces, and not being able to get a good view of the construction etc. is going to be very difficult to price here. So all I could offer is what I would be willing to pay - essentially sight unseen - if I were in the market for these. (I am not, sorry!) So I would tentatively put them in the price range of $30 to $40 - could be more depending on the condition and other factors not visible here.
That said, you indicated that there was a story with them. If you could discover that, especially with provinance (i.e. a photo of a famous individual using these items and a period letter explaining them would be ideal) then they often have a much inflated value to the physical object's worth. People pay for the story!
I have a relatively cheap $30 hip flask for example, Used, worth about $10. But it comes with a signature on it from Donald Sutherland and was used on the set of Bear Island (the movie). I wouldn't part with it for under $70 now. So you can see the difference!
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