An extensive set of Italian silver flatware and a matching Italian silver cruet set, Clemente di Giovanni Mantel, Bologna, modern

comprising; a wooden case with a drawer; 12 table forks; 12 table spoons; 12 table knives; 12 fish forks, 12 fish knives; 12 desser tforks; 12 dessert spoons; 12 dessert knives; 12 tea spoons; 12 fruit forks; 12 lobster picks; 2 pickleforks; 2 butter knives; 2 soup ladles; a cheese slicer; a pair of salad servers; a meat knife; a large meat fork; 2 smaller meat forks; a cake server; a cake knife; an aspergus server; a pair of fish servers; a fish slice; a pair of bread tongs; a large vegetable spoon; 2 smaller vegetable spoons; a pair of scissors; a large sugar spoon; a punch spoon; 2 gravy ladles; a smaller gravy ladle; 2 sets of flatware for childeren; the cruet set with two glass bottles, a glass and silver salt cellar with salt spoon and two other glass and silver cups

Overall good, the wood case probably not original.
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