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THE DESSERT KNIVES AND FORKS MAKER'S MARK OF LEVESLEY BROS., SHEFFIELD, 1882
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AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN SILVER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL DESSERT SET IN CASE
The dessert knives and forks maker's mark of Levesley Bros., Sheffield, 1882
Comprising eighteen pairs of dessert knives and forks, each with a mother-of-pearl handle and silver blade or tines, the knife blades engraved with birds, bamboo stalks, fans and ferns, all in Aesthetic taste; a Pair of Dessert Spoons, London, 1824, later parcel-gilt and engraved with flowers, dragonflies and fan motifs, a grape scissors, London, 1882, decorated to match the spoons, two steel nutcrackers and two mother-of-pearl and steel nutpicks, all silver pieces fully marked; all contained in an unusual fitted silk-lined mahogany and satinwood case stamped with the registration mark for 1881. (43)
The dessert knives and forks maker's mark of Levesley Bros., Sheffield, 1882
Comprising eighteen pairs of dessert knives and forks, each with a mother-of-pearl handle and silver blade or tines, the knife blades engraved with birds, bamboo stalks, fans and ferns, all in Aesthetic taste; a Pair of Dessert Spoons, London, 1824, later parcel-gilt and engraved with flowers, dragonflies and fan motifs, a grape scissors, London, 1882, decorated to match the spoons, two steel nutcrackers and two mother-of-pearl and steel nutpicks, all silver pieces fully marked; all contained in an unusual fitted silk-lined mahogany and satinwood case stamped with the registration mark for 1881. (43)