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THE KNIVES AND ELEVEN FORKS MARK OF MOSES BRENT, LONDON, CIRCA 1810, THE TEASPOONS MARK OF JOHN POWER, DUBLIN, 1792, ONE FORK WITH MODERN TINES
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THE KNIVES AND ELEVEN FORKS MARK OF MOSES BRENT, LONDON, CIRCA 1810, THE TEASPOONS MARK OF JOHN POWER, DUBLIN, 1792, ONE FORK WITH MODERN TINES
The forks and knives each with zig-zag border, each later engraved with a crest below a marquess' coronet and a baron's coronet, the handles with reverse painted glass panels, the spoons pointed Old English pattern with engraved foliage, comprising:
Twelve fruit-forks
Twelve fruit-knives
Twelve teaspoons
contained in a fitted brass-bound burr wood canteen, the shield engraved with a differing crest
the canteen 14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) long
weighable silver 8 oz. 11 dwt. (266 gr.)
The crests are those of Churchill, presumably for George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford and Baron Churchill (1766-1840), later 5th Duke of Marlborough following the death of his father in 1817.
THE KNIVES AND ELEVEN FORKS MARK OF MOSES BRENT, LONDON, CIRCA 1810, THE TEASPOONS MARK OF JOHN POWER, DUBLIN, 1792, ONE FORK WITH MODERN TINES
The forks and knives each with zig-zag border, each later engraved with a crest below a marquess' coronet and a baron's coronet, the handles with reverse painted glass panels, the spoons pointed Old English pattern with engraved foliage, comprising:
Twelve fruit-forks
Twelve fruit-knives
Twelve teaspoons
contained in a fitted brass-bound burr wood canteen, the shield engraved with a differing crest
the canteen 14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) long
weighable silver 8 oz. 11 dwt. (266 gr.)
The crests are those of Churchill, presumably for George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford and Baron Churchill (1766-1840), later 5th Duke of Marlborough following the death of his father in 1817.
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