A Group of Irish Provincial Silver flatware, Cork, early to late 18th century

comprising: three rat-tail tablespoons engraved with matching crest, one with maker's mark only for Anthony Semirot, one with maker's mark only three times for William Clarke, one with maker's mark Rouben Millard and castle mark; a pair of tablespoons initialed L/RM, with maker's mark for Carden Terry and STERLING; two bright-cut pointed-end tablespoons, with maker's mark for John Nicholson and STERLING; a similar tablespoon, with maker's mark for John Toleken and STERLING; another, with maker's mark incuse WT for William Toulen and STE.; a Beaded pattern soup ladle, with maker's mark twice for Carden Terry and STERLING; and a crested Fiddle pattern soup ladle, by Carden Terry and Jane Williams, 11 pieces

Beaded ladle with repaired splits to rim of bowl and shiny
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