Lot Essay
The crest is proably that of Bligh for the Earls of Darnley
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN ASSEMBLED GEORGE III/IV SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE
THE KNIVES MARK OF PAUL STORR, THE REMAINDER ELEY, FEARN & CHAWNER OR ELEY & FEARN, LONDON, 1801-23
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AN ASSEMBLED GEORGE III/IV SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE
THE KNIVES MARK OF PAUL STORR, THE REMAINDER ELEY, FEARN & CHAWNER OR ELEY & FEARN, LONDON, 1801-23
Fiddle, thread and shell pattern, the knives hour glass pattern, engraved with a crest and coronet, comprising:
Twenty-four table forks
Twenty-four dessert forks
Twenty-four table spoons, one mark SH
Twenty-four teaspoons, six Paul Storr, 1819
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twenty-four table knives, with stainless steel blades, one with unclear maker's mark
Twenty-four dessert knives, with silver-gilt blades
Twenty-four fruit knives, with stainless steel blades
Four ice spades
A pair of sauce ladles
A pair of sugar sifters
A three-piece carving set, hourglass pattern, Paul Storr
Two pairs of grapvine pattern grape shears, Benjamin & James Smith, 1810,
in a fitted mahogany canteen
309 oz. (9,612 gr.) weighable silver (205)
THE KNIVES MARK OF PAUL STORR, THE REMAINDER ELEY, FEARN & CHAWNER OR ELEY & FEARN, LONDON, 1801-23
Fiddle, thread and shell pattern, the knives hour glass pattern, engraved with a crest and coronet, comprising:
Twenty-four table forks
Twenty-four dessert forks
Twenty-four table spoons, one mark SH
Twenty-four teaspoons, six Paul Storr, 1819
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twenty-four table knives, with stainless steel blades, one with unclear maker's mark
Twenty-four dessert knives, with silver-gilt blades
Twenty-four fruit knives, with stainless steel blades
Four ice spades
A pair of sauce ladles
A pair of sugar sifters
A three-piece carving set, hourglass pattern, Paul Storr
Two pairs of grapvine pattern grape shears, Benjamin & James Smith, 1810,
in a fitted mahogany canteen
309 oz. (9,612 gr.) weighable silver (205)
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1997, lot 135
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