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kaere Posts: 3 Registered: Oct 2002	posted 10-31-2002 03:00 PM I recently purchased this unusual silver plated piece and don't know what it is called. The only identifying mark is on the bottom "Made in England". Can anyone tell me what it is really called and any details with regard to it's age, etc. please? Here are the pictures--I hope. ~ Leslie [This message has been edited by kaere (edited 11-19-2002).] IP: Logged
smfc75 Posts: 122 Registered: Mar 2002	posted 12-04-2002 07:17 PM The English would call this a folding biscuit tray. At tea time it would be opened and filled with cookies or crackers (both of which the English would call biscuits) or any other little goodies customarily served at tea. Without knowing who made it, I wouldn't even venture a guess as to the age. Hope this helps! IP: Logged
kaere Posts: 3 Registered: Oct 2002	posted 12-10-2002 10:02 AM quote: Originally posted by smfc75: The English would call this a folding biscuit tray. At tea time it would be opened and filled with cookies or crackers (both of which the English would call biscuits) or any other little goodies customarily served at tea. Without knowing who made it, I wouldn't even venture a guess as to the age. Hope this helps! Thank you so much for the information. Now I can serve my petit fours on it at Christmas and not be gauche! IP: Logged
smfc75 Posts: 122 Registered: Mar 2002	posted 12-10-2002 01:35 PM I agree. Crumpets can be so d�class�! quote: Traditionally, the upper classes serve a "low" or "afternoon" tea around 4:00 PM just before the fashionable promenade in Hyde Park, at which one might find crustless sandwiches, biscuits, and cake. Middle and lower classes have a "high" tea later in the day, at 5:00 or 6:00. It is a more substantial meal essentially, it's dinner which includes bread, meats, scones, and cake. A typical menu at High tea would consist of Roast pork, stand pie, salmon and salad, trifle, jellies, lemon-cheese tarts, sponge cake, walnut cake, chocolate roll, pound cake, white and brown bread, currant teacake, curd tart and cheeses. The names derive from the height of the tables on which the meals are served. Low tea is served on table, which in the U.S. would be called "coffee tables." High tea is served on the dinner table. IP: Logged

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