A GEORGE III AND VICTORIAN SILVER TABLE-SERVICE
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A GEORGE III AND VICTORIAN SILVER TABLE-SERVICE

LONDON, 1800-1896, VARIOUS MAKERS

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A GEORGE III AND VICTORIAN SILVER TABLE-SERVICE
LONDON, 1800-1896, VARIOUS MAKERS
Hour-glass pattern, some pieces engraved or later engraved with a crest below an earl's coronet, comprising:

Thirty table-spoons Thirty table-forks
Thirty dessert-spoons, Sheffield, 1990 Thirty dessert-forks
Thirty table-knives, with filled handles and stainless steel blades, two differing
Thirty dessert-knives, with filled handles and stainless steel blades
Six basting-spoons Four poultry-forks
Two carving-forks A pair of fish-servers, London, 1918
All in oak canteen, the cover with brass plaque engraved 'John, 7th Marquess of Bristol/Ickworth, April 1990'

387 oz. 6 dwt. (12,046 gr.)
The crest is that of Hervey for the Earls and later Marquesses of Bristol.
Provenance
John, 7th Marquess of Bristol (1954-1999), by 1990.
Property Removed from Little Horringer Hall, Suffolk (formerly in the East Wing, Ickworth, Suffork) belonging to the Executors of the late Marquess of Bristol; Sotheby's, Billingshurst, West Sussex, 16 September 1999, lot 1174.
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