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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A FINE VICTORIAN SILVER TABLE SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN HUNT & ROBERT ROSKELL OVERSTRIKING FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1883
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A FINE VICTORIAN SILVER TABLE SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN HUNT & ROBERT ROSKELL OVERSTRIKING FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1883
King's shape, rococo pattern, each engraved with a crest, comprising:
Twenty-four table spoons
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twelve teaspoons
Six egg spoons, one Hunt & Roskell Ltd., 1898
Sixty table forks
Twenty-three dessert forks
Forty-eight table knives with steel blades
Twenty-three cheese knives with steel blades
Two butter knives
One meat fork with steel tines
A crumber
One carving fork and knife with steel blade
Two soup ladles, one Francis Higgins
Two stuffing spoons
Four sauce ladles
A sugar sifter
Three mustard spoons
A pair of sugar tongs
In the original fitted case, the cover inset with brass plaque engraved with the same crest, the interior cover with Hunt and Roskell retailer's label
446 oz. (12,933 gr.) weighable silver (244)
MARK OF JOHN HUNT & ROBERT ROSKELL OVERSTRIKING FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1883
King's shape, rococo pattern, each engraved with a crest, comprising:
Twenty-four table spoons
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twelve teaspoons
Six egg spoons, one Hunt & Roskell Ltd., 1898
Sixty table forks
Twenty-three dessert forks
Forty-eight table knives with steel blades
Twenty-three cheese knives with steel blades
Two butter knives
One meat fork with steel tines
A crumber
One carving fork and knife with steel blade
Two soup ladles, one Francis Higgins
Two stuffing spoons
Four sauce ladles
A sugar sifter
Three mustard spoons
A pair of sugar tongs
In the original fitted case, the cover inset with brass plaque engraved with the same crest, the interior cover with Hunt and Roskell retailer's label
446 oz. (12,933 gr.) weighable silver (244)
Literature
Ian Pickford, Silver Flatware: English, Irish and Scottish 1660-1980, ill. p. 135, no. 202.