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MARK OF GEORGE SMITH AND WILLIAM FEARN, THOMAS NORTHCOTE AND WILLIAM SUMNER, LONDON, 1789
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A ROYAL/AMBASSADORIAL GEORGE III SILVER TABLE-SERVICE
MARK OF GEORGE SMITH AND WILLIAM FEARN, THOMAS NORTHCOTE AND WILLIAM SUMNER, LONDON, 1789
Old English Thread, pattern, engraved with the Royal crest within the Garter motto and below the Royal crown, comprising:
Twenty-four table-spoons
Twenty-four table-forks
Twenty-four dessert-spoons
Twenty-four dessert-forks
Eight basting-spoons
A salad-fork
A soup-ladle
A pair of aparagus-tongs
A pair of sugar-tongs
Two Fiddle pattern sauce-ladles, 1790
All contained in a felt-lined brass-bound oak canteen
220 oz. (6,832 gr.) (110)
MARK OF GEORGE SMITH AND WILLIAM FEARN, THOMAS NORTHCOTE AND WILLIAM SUMNER, LONDON, 1789
Old English Thread, pattern, engraved with the Royal crest within the Garter motto and below the Royal crown, comprising:
Twenty-four table-spoons
Twenty-four table-forks
Twenty-four dessert-spoons
Twenty-four dessert-forks
Eight basting-spoons
A salad-fork
A soup-ladle
A pair of aparagus-tongs
A pair of sugar-tongs
Two Fiddle pattern sauce-ladles, 1790
All contained in a felt-lined brass-bound oak canteen
220 oz. (6,832 gr.) (110)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Alleyne FitzHerbert, later 1st Baron St. Helens (1753-1839) as Ambassador to The Hague (1789-1790) or Madrid (1790-1794) and by descent.
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