Lot 581
  • 581

SET OF GEORGE III SILVER FLATWARE, DRU DRURY II OF LONDON, CIRCA 1760

Estimate
800 - 1,000 USD
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Description

  • silver
With crested handles, comprising twelve dinner knives and twelve dinner forks, marked on handles with maker's mark and lion passant only, the blades with cutler's mark SQUIRE. Together with eleven two-tined small forks by maker's mark TL. 35 pieces.

Provenance

Argentum-The Leopard's Head, San Francisco, 2002.

Condition

all handles with dings and small dents, most marks heavily rubbed, 2 dinner forks with tip of one tine broken off, all handles of the small-scale forks with small silver losses to terminals- one with patch repair to terminal
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