Sterling Meat Platter

Q: Please help me identify and price my sterling silver tray. It’s marked “Lord Saybrook International Sterling, W4-408-4.” It’s heavy and sits up on little legs. The design on the tray is a tree with impressed “valley” branches and a deep hole at the base of the trunk.

A: International Silver Co. of Meriden, Conn., made its Lord Saybrook pattern silver during the first half of the 20th century. You have a meat platter. Its decoration, called a “well and tree,” is designed to safely drain juice from cut rare meat. The meat platter is one of the larger, heavier pieces in the pattern. One auctioned a few years ago for $400.