English, 20th Century

modern

mostly electroplate



comprising six silver condiment forks with green wood handles, Harrison Brothers & Howson, Sheffield, 1926, and the rest, electroplate, as follows:
- Feather edged pattern: twenty-four soup spoons, twenty-six table forks, twenty-four dessert spoons, twenty-three teaspoons, twenty-three dessert forks, basting spoon
- Eight butter knives with green resin handles
- Twelve fruit knives and eleven fruit forks with mother of pearl handles, chased blades
- Old English pattern and Hanoverian rat tail pattern: One basting spoon, three sauce ladles, three soup spoons, twelve table spoons, nine table forks, eleven dessert spoons, five large dessert forks, twelve cake forks, a pair of salad servers
- Serving pieces: two pairs of sugar tongs, a bottle opener, a bottle stopper, three knife rests, a crumb slice, three pickle picks, a crab meat fork, a fruit knife with ivory handle
- Twelve fruit knives and twelve fruit forks with carved ivory handles
- Eight table knives with ivory handles
- Eleven pistol handle table knives and fourteen pistol handle dessert knives
- And the rest, of various patterns: three table forks, a dessert fork, two cake forks, two sauce ladles, one jam spoon, two gilt teaspoons, four butter knives in sizes

fruit forks: some wear to silver plated prongs fruit knives: blades worn commensurate with use, ivory stained and worn due to cleaning in dishwasher. pistol handle table knives: handles with signs of use, new stainless blades ivory table knives: stained with slightly rusting and some handles scratches pistol handle dessert knives: with minor surface scratches on handles ivory EPNS canteen: prongs with knife cuts and slightly wear commensurate with us, otherwise reasonable good condition. nice lot.
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