A late Victorian Hanoverian pattern part flatware service engraved with crests, the spoons with rat-tail bowls, the forks with three prongs, comprising: seven tablespoons, eight table forks, eight dessert spoons, eight dessert forks, eight teaspoons and a pair of sauce ladles, with six matching table knives and ten dessert knives with crest-engraved pistol handles and stainless steel blades, Francis Higgins, London 1895, 1896 and 1899; a set of eight similarly-engraved Hanoverian pattern coffee spoons with shell-struck bowls, a different maker, London 1895; and a set of six similarly-engraved pistol-handled tea knives - weight of silver 77oz. free.(a lot)