A composite Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. and Cauldon bone-china part dinner service circa 1872 and later

decorated with a black and gilt key pattern and maroon border, comprising: soup tureen and cover, sauce tureen, cover and two stands, meat dish, ten kidney shaped dishes, forty- one dinner plates, twelve soup plates and seven dessert plates (minor damage)

Overall some typical wear to the rims. One handle of the soup tureen has a riveted repair. The sauce tureen has cracks to the body. Three dinner plates have haircracks, two have small rim chips. One soup plate has a crack and one has a small rim chip. One dessert plate has a crack and another has a rim chip.
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