Antique Metal Rectangular Vinaigrette With Unusual Slide Grill Monogrammed GB

Description: A very unusual antique unknown metal vinaigrette. This rectangular, relatively larger vinaigrette is made of a non-ferrous metal, possibly chrome (It is not marked as silver but is bright as if it was). The vinaigrette is unmarked as to the maker or the metal used to make it. The piece has a hinged lid which is textured with a border having small flowers in a repeating pattern for decoration all along the edge and having a small bright rectangle in the center that has the initials GB. The rest of the piece's exterior is bright and polished with no decoration. The interior is machine turned and has a grill which slides in and out within a channel at the top of the bottom. Such a grill is very unusual since grills are normally hinged. The grill is decorated with a floral foliate. The piece has a series of numbers written on the inside of the lid which appear to be an inventory number at an institution suggesting the piece was deaccessioned from an institution or museum in th