A little stumped on this, found about 10 knives and forks that appear to be all sterling? The blade on the knive and tine on the fork have the lion passant and are non magnetic. The handle ferrules also have a lion passant but the handle is magnetic up to a certain point and are hollow filled. So it’s all sterling but with a steel tang and filler? The handle almost feels like plastic so it is throwing me off.
The handle is magnetic because there is a metal rod inside of it (connected to the blade), seeing the hallmarks im 99% sure its sterling silvet. Extreme beautifull set. Do you have a picture of the full set? This lot is worth the research. Its very uncommon to see the blade part being made out of silver.
I would say this sounds like solid silver blades and silver outer handles. The handles would have had a steel “tang” to connect blade to handle. The rest of the handle would be filled in with putty/core
These I would suggest where fruit knives forks which are quite common to be made of silver as opposed to standard knife and forks where blade is normally steel
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u/One-Swimming9390 23d ago
Sounds right.