A Fabergé Silver-Gilt Flatware Service, Moscow, 1908-1917

comprising:

18 dinner forks

18 dinner knives , 1 blade stamped "Christofle" and the other "Made For C Fabergé"

12 table spoons

12 fish forks with silver tines

12 fish knives with silver blades

3 dessert forks together with 9 later matching forks

12 cheese or lunch knives with original steel blades, 9 with blades stamped "Made For C Fabergé" and 3 with blades stamped "Christofle"

6 dessert spoons together with 6 later matching spoons bearing spurious marks

2 fish serving forks with silver tines

2 fish slices with silver blades

1 soup ladle

1 sauce ladle

1 pair of salad servers

1 carving knife and fork with steel blades and tines and stamped "Resistain Steel"

all handles with imperial double-headed eagles, contained in a later case, the service apparently later gilded, struck K. Fabergé beneath the Imperial Warrant and with KF in Cyrillic, 88 standard

(118 pieces)

length of soup ladle 31.8cm; 12 1/2 in., and smaller