What have I found in out outbuilding?

[LynnThese4reSEXPEOPLE]

So previously I had a thread about weird things left in houses; today I went into the upper floor of out outbuilding (couldn't previously as ladder was too unstable and I was pregnant). I found these! I've cleaned them up. We live near a church so I'm wondering if they are from there. No hallmark, think they are pewter.

There was also a rubber mouse!

I don't know, but if I made such a find in my outbuilding, I would drink my gin from these forevermore.

They look communion related. Maybe ask at the church?

The one on the right looks like the Holy Grail from Indiana Jones. Was there a really old fella and a fountain too Op?

@TSSDNCOP yep. Next to the rubber mouse. But I'm posting ao clearly I chose wisely!

Well done OP, ill bet it was touch and go though wasn't it? I do think the mouse was a red herring though.

They look ciboriums which hold the bread for Holy Communion. I think they should a lids though and would normally have a matching chalice too.

Well done OP, ill bet it was touch and go though wasn't it? I do think the mouse was a red herring though.

Def look like communion vessels (it's been so long can't remember proper name!)

@TSSDNCOP there were some suspicious human sized piles of dust, and obviously everyone has a yawning chasm with a screaming woman in it in their outbuilding right?

@BellaVida what a great word! I am going to pop over and ask the vicar later and see if she would like to repatriate them. We're relatively low church Anglicans in the village so might well be from there... BUT HOW?!

i'll differ and say flower arrangement related.

Sensible me thinks they are church related.
Fantasy me thinks they're some kind of magical chalice, for eternal youth wine drinking. Cheers.

Am I the only one that think a they look like a before and after photo done by a company that sells metal cleaning stuff

@AlCalavicci just silver polish and 10 mins with a duster!

They look like silver desert bowls

Shit OP! You've found the holy grail! Two of them as well!!

They look like the dessert bowls we had in the 1970s but they were stainless steel.

They don't have the height of a communion cup but if you search baptism cup that seems to match the shape.

Where's a pic of the rubber mouse?

Could we have a picture of the rubber mouse?

I'm more interested in the rubber mouse...

I think they are silver plate -maybe?

@LynnThese4reSEXPEOPLE ,
I am impressed with your elbow grease !

I think the shiny one you've cleaned is a modern copy of the other, they are not exactly the same shape.

Which might mean that the filthy one is worth more than it looks at first sight. Have either of them got marks on anywhere?

@bitofasleuth sadly no hallmarks so I doubt they are silver.
@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard @WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat I will sally forth tomorrow and photograph the rubber mouse!

I need to do a lot of clearing up in there so goodness knows what else is going to turn up...

A ciborium doesn't always have a lid - described as an "open ciborium". However, it would usually have gold-plating inside.

An interesting find though

Communion chalices would be silver. I reckon they’re for baptisms.