MAINLY WILLIAM COMYNS, LONDON 1910
Details
A composite comprehensive flatware service
Mainly William Comyns, London 1910
Feather-edged Hanoverian pattern and die-stamped with winged figures holding tridents, the reverses engraved with initials C. with coronets above, comprising: eighty-four tablespoons, one hundred and eight table forks, seventy-two dessert spoons, seventy-two dessert forks, forty-eight teaspoons, thirty-six coffee spoons, twelve salt spoons, twelve butter knives, twelve sauce ladles, two soup ladles, two basting spoons and six pairs of sugar tongs, with thirty-six various dessert knives and thirty-six forks with mother-of-pearl handles and silver blades and prongs and one hundred and eight table knives, seventy-two cheese knives and six pairs of carvers with ivory handles and steel blades and prongs, in a large mahogany canteen with brass carrying handles, the two panelled doors enclosing graduated drawers
height of canteen 32½in. (82.5cm.)
888oz.
Mainly William Comyns, London 1910
Feather-edged Hanoverian pattern and die-stamped with winged figures holding tridents, the reverses engraved with initials C. with coronets above, comprising: eighty-four tablespoons, one hundred and eight table forks, seventy-two dessert spoons, seventy-two dessert forks, forty-eight teaspoons, thirty-six coffee spoons, twelve salt spoons, twelve butter knives, twelve sauce ladles, two soup ladles, two basting spoons and six pairs of sugar tongs, with thirty-six various dessert knives and thirty-six forks with mother-of-pearl handles and silver blades and prongs and one hundred and eight table knives, seventy-two cheese knives and six pairs of carvers with ivory handles and steel blades and prongs, in a large mahogany canteen with brass carrying handles, the two panelled doors enclosing graduated drawers
height of canteen 32½in. (82.5cm.)
888oz.
Further details
This set was probably a wedding gift to Clive Pearson and the Honourable Alicia Knatchball-Huggessen