A Danish silver Classic Ida pattern flatware service, A. Michelsen, Cophenhagen, retailed by Georg Jensen, London, late 20th Century

with plain rounded handles and short tines, comprising:
24 dinner knives
24 dinner forks
24 lunch knives
23 lunch forks
23 fish knives
21 fish forks
25 butter spreaders
26 salad forks
6 dessert knives
24 teaspoons
24 dessert spoons
24 soup spoons
21 coffee spoons
2-piece carving set
4 serving forks
2 cold meat forks
two serving spoons
1 tomato server
2 sauce ladles
1 cake knife
1 cake server
1 pie server
1 lemon fork
1 sugar spoon
24 salt and pepper shakers, Garrard & Co., Ltd, London
Together with:
3 silver-plated serving tongs
334 pieces

Purchased from Georg Jensen, 15 New Bond St., London, May 1982

light scratches to all from use, one dinner fork and one salad fork with bent tines, otherwise good condition
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