FORTY-FIVE PIECES OF VARIOUS SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO FLATWARE, each with scrolling foliage, blossoms and urns over various engraved backgrounds comprising: six table-knives, six table-forks, eighteen table-spoons, nine dessert-spoons, six tea-spoons, and a caster-spoon, various makers, Moscow, mainly first half 19th Century; and a set of twelve silver-gilt and niello tea-spoons decorated wiht panels of chequerboard ornament, maker's mark A.S., assaymaster I.Ardejev, Moscow, 1860 (55)