Butter knife

Walker & Vera Reid found this knife with a metal detector and dug it up. Having been buried at Port Pemberton whose heyday lasted only until about 1863, probably the dates from the period of the Gold Rush. No inscription is visible. The item is bent, scratched, and rusted. It was cleaned after accession with Haggerty’s silver polish. After further research, we were able to determine the makers mark based on the pattern on the fork. The pattern is called “Lido 1938”, and was made by Made by WM. A. Rogers Sectional Oneida Ltd. The material is silver plate.