A FIVE PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, maker's mark of S. Kirk & Son, circa 1890, comprising pear shaped teapot, tapering cylindrical coffee pot, large urn form, stemmed, covered sugar urn, pear shaped cream jug and circular waste bowl, each chased and engraved with undulating grapevine on stippled ground, the front applied with plain asymmetrical cartouche engraved with script initial R, the sugar bowl with bifurcated tendril handles, the pots with part foliate spout, ram's head and foliate engraved angular handle, the side hinged conformingly decorated cover topped by cast floral and foliate finial --height of coffee pot 11in. (27.9cm.) high, gross weight 120.5oz. (5)

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A FIVE PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, maker's mark of S. Kirk & Son, circa 1890, comprising pear shaped teapot, tapering cylindrical coffee pot, large urn form, stemmed, covered sugar urn, pear shaped cream jug and circular waste bowl, each chased and engraved with undulating grapevine on stippled ground, the front applied with plain asymmetrical cartouche engraved with script initial R, the sugar bowl with bifurcated tendril handles, the pots with part foliate spout, ram's head and foliate engraved angular handle, the side hinged conformingly decorated cover topped by cast floral and foliate finial --height of coffee pot 11in. (27.9cm.) high, gross weight 120.5oz. (5)

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