A Victorian silver flatware service, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Sheffield, 1897
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June 9, 03:06 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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5,000 GBP
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Description
In 'Old English' pattern, crested, in an oak canteen, comprising:
twelve table spoons, eleven table forks, twenty-six dessert forks, twelve dessert spoons, six egg spoons, a sugar scoop, two basting spoons, a soup ladle, two sauce ladles; together with thirteen plated table forks and a plated dessert spoon in the same pattern and with the same crest,
4480gr., 144oz
The top of the oak canteen is inset with a copper plaque engraved "Henry James Grierson, writer to the Signet, Edinburgh".
Henry James Grierson (1896-1961) was the son of Henry Grierson of Milton Park, Kirkcudbrightshire. in 1898 he married Flora, daughter of Major Herbert Buchanan, and this canteen was presumably a wedding present.