Victorian Kings pattern silver flatware set , Francis Higgins, London, 1892
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November 13, 03:07 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Victorian Kings pattern silver flatware set
Francis Higgins, London
1892
stag crested comprising:
36 table forks
24 table or soup spoons
24 dessert forks
24 dessert spoons
18 teaspoons
4 mustard spoons
4 butter knives
1 soup ladle
3 sauce ladles
1 sugar spoon
1 pair of sugar tongs
1 sugar sifter
12 table knives and
12 dessert knives with steel blades, maker's mark WY, Sheffield, 2006
in a fitted brass-bound oak case, owners brass label Brigadier CWM Norrie D.S.O, retailer's brass label Garrard and co. crown goldsmiths and jewellers, 25 Haymarket, London, W.
10,698gr, 344oz weighable silver
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The crest, (stag's head couped, holding in the mouth a branch of poplar proper, between the attired a key pendant from a chain or Moke), is that of Lieutenant-General Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie, GCMG, GCVO, CB, DSO, MC & Bar (1893 – 1977). He was a senior officer of the British Army who fought in both World Wars, following which he served terms as Governor of South Australia and the eighth Governor-General of New Zealand. He was created a brigadier in 1936.