> And here above comes another conundrum from my silver collection. The
> Arms are engraved upon
> my set of 12 portugese chargers(plates). I have a feeling that the
> plates might be connected to the
> imperial House of Brasil of Dom Pedro in the XIX century. Poor chap has
> been dethroned and
> made to live in exile in Italy and Britain. His descendants having
> fallen upon the hard times might have flogged
> the plates back to the trades people.  The silversmiths marks are
> characteristic to late XIX century.
> Any comments would be appreciated.

> fatso