Original British Victorian Silver Plated Brass Serving Platter with Cover Marked with the EIC “Rampant Lion” circa 1850 Category_Fusee Spring & Cover It is engraved Zur Erinnerung

It is engraved Zur Erinnerung an meine Dienstzeit (In Memory of my Service Period) on the obverse of the blade

the barrel may have been resurfaced

Roosevelt ordered the Army Air Forces to mount retaliatory raids on the Japanese Home Islands

and all but one of the seppa

500 miles south of Tokyo

Original British Victorian Silver Plated Brass Serving Platter with Cover Marked with the EIC “Rampant Lion” circa 1850 Category_Fusee Spring & Cover It is engraved Zur ErinnerungOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a most interesting silver plated engraved Victorian early serving platter with cover, which has a removable handle on the top. We assume that this is so that the lid can also be used as a platter once no longer needed. The cover displays the 1808 1859 rampant lion motif crest of the British East India Company. Almost certainly dating to about 1850, having come out of an officer's mess in India. It is silver