A Victorian composite silver table-service
A Victorian composite silver table-service

VARIOUS MAKER'S MARKS AND DATES, MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY

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A Victorian composite silver table-service
Various maker's marks and dates, mostly 19th century
King's pattern, each engraved with two crests, comprising:
Thirty-two table-spoons
Thirty-five table-forks
Thirty-five dessert-spoons
Thirty-six dessert-forks
Thirty-three teaspoons
Five mustard-spoons
Twelve salt-spoons
Eleven egg-spoons
Seven sauce-ladles
A pair of sugar-tongs
Four serving-spoons
Pair of soup-ladles
A sugar-sifter
all marked on handles, all in fitted wooden case, the cover engraved with brass plaque 'H.W. Lawson Esq.'
Three additional plated table spoons
492ozs. (15,309gr.) excluding knives
The crests are those of Webster and Lawson (215)
Provenance
Harry Lawson Webster, 1st Viscount Burnham (d. 1933), Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire.
Thence by descent.
The late Mr and Mrs Gerald Coke; Christie's London, 17 October 1996, lot 254 (part)

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