Ménagère en argent par Gustav Klingert, Moscou, 1896-1917

de style rocaille, gravée du monogramme ES, comprenant: 23 fourchettes de table (table forks), 12 cuillères de table (table spoons), 12 couteaux de table (table knives with steel blades), 12 couteaux de table à lames en acier inoxydable (table knives with stainless-steel blades), 12 fourchettes à dessert (dessert forks), 22 cuillères à dessert (dessert spoons), 12 couteaux à dessert à lames en acier inoxydable (dessert knives with stainless-steel blades), 11 cuillères à café (coffee spoons), 11 couteaux à gateau (cake knives) et 5 fourchettes à gateaux (cake forks), 3 cuillères à thé (teaspoons), 4 salières et 2 doublures en verre bleu (salts with 2 blue glass liners), 4 cuillères à sel (salt spoons), fourchette et couteau à découper (carving fork, carving knife with steel blade), pelle à poisson (fish slice), louche (soup ladle)

rococco pattern, initialled ES

Some corrosion spotting to salts, one salt spoons with gilding loss to bowl, carving knife with scratchmarks, 3 or 4 loose blades, some additional minor corrosion spotting, overall good clear marks, majority of pieces 1896-1908, some steel blades are original, some are from Warsaw and the stainless ones from England, generally in reasonably good condition with crisp decoration and attractive initial.
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