A brass-inlaid mahogany-veneered oblong canteen with rising cover and two graduated drawers, containing a Queen Anne pattern flatware service for twelve place settings, including a soup ladle, a basting spoon, two sauce ladles, a sifting spoon and a pair of knife rests, with twelve table knives, eleven dessert knives and a five-piece carving set with steel blades and bone handles, the canteen with a vacant shield-shaped cartouche - length of canteen 19in.