A SET OF SIX GERMAN KNIVES WITH SILVER HANDLES, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1740 |

together with 8 associated tea spoons, 1 basting spoon, maker's mark DH, France, circa 1770, 1 basting spoon, probably Laurent Payen, Avignon, circa 1750, 1 basting spoon, Jean-Baptiste Dutrevis, Paris, 1819-1838, a fork and spoon, Paris, 1787-1788

The blades rotten, the spoons with some dents, the 3 serving spoon, in overall good condition, with legible marks. The Augsburg setwith date-letter D for 1739-1741, maker's mark ICE, a dot above, for Johann Christof Eckart, who became master in 1741. The maker for the Paris fork and spoon is probably that of Louis-Jacques Anthiaume.
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