A COMPOSITE KNIFE AND FORK SET, comprising knife with later rounded single-edged blade struck with a mark, tapering silver handle of rectangular section engraved with conventional flowers on the wider faces, and surmounted by a strawberry-shaped finial, fork with long slender writhen steel neck made in one with two tines, the ivory handle (minor cracks) carved in the round as a pseudo-Classical warrior about to draw his sword, and silver ferrule, in ivory sheath with two compartments and side-suspension tubes, carved with figures of David and Athena, cherubs, guilloche strapwork and acanthus foliage, German or Dutch, all 17th Century