Lot 158
  • 158

An Georgian Silver Assembled Flatware Service, London and Edinburgh, circa 1780/1829

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Old English pattern, unengraved except for the knives which are shell-capped pistol-handled engraved with a stag crest, comprising:
    twenty-two dinner knives
    twenty-three dinner forks
    twenty-three cheese knives
    thirty-three dessert forks
    twelve fish knives, converted
    twenty-three dessert spoons
    twenty-three teaspoons
    twenty-one tablespoons
    three sauce ladles
    five salt spoons
    four small ladles, Fiddle pattern
    192 pieces, in five-drawer wood chest.   Together with a pair of plated sugar tongs
  • Silver, Wood Chest

Condition

as noted re fish knives, otherwise good, recently professionally polished
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