A Large English Silver Flatware Service, Crichton, London, 1911-12

engraved on the reverse with the Astor crest, comprising:
forty-seven dinner knives
forty-eight dinner forks
thirty-one lunch knives
forty lunch forks
forty-four cheese knives
forty-seven fruit forks
twenty teaspoons
twenty-nine dessert spoons
thirty-five tablespoons
thirteen demitasse spoons
354 pieces.  Together with the following in plate: one fish server, two sauce ladles, one cream ladle and one pastry fork

all show some wear from regular use; approx. 6 handles have dents, the crests are mostly rubbed and some are engraved in opposite directions; of the lunch knives four have replaced straight stainless blades, the rest have curved steel blades in good condition; of the dinner knives 29 have replaced stainless straight blades, 18 have curved steel blades of which one is damaged Please note correction: the Cheese knives are silver-bladed Fruit Knives, the dates are 1911-12 except two teaspoons and one soup spoon 1913 and nine lunch forks 1930, all by Crichton and the weight should read 344 ozs. weighable
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