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MARK OF GEORGE SMITH AND WILLIAM FEARN, THOMAS NORTHCOTE AND WILLIAM SUMNER, LONDON, 1789
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A ROYAL/AMBASSADORIAL GEORGE III SILVER TABLE-SERVICE
MARK OF GEORGE SMITH AND WILLIAM FEARN, THOMAS NORTHCOTE AND WILLIAM SUMNER, LONDON, 1789
Old English Thread pattern, engraved with the Royal crest within the Garter motto and below the Royal crown, comprising:
Thirty table-spoons
Twenty-four table-forks
Twelve dessert-spoons
Six dessert-forks
Five basting-spoons
A salad-fork
Two Fiddle pattern sauce-ladles, 1790
All contained in a felt lined brass-bound oak canteen
174 oz. (5,403 gr.) (80)
MARK OF GEORGE SMITH AND WILLIAM FEARN, THOMAS NORTHCOTE AND WILLIAM SUMNER, LONDON, 1789
Old English Thread pattern, engraved with the Royal crest within the Garter motto and below the Royal crown, comprising:
Thirty table-spoons
Twenty-four table-forks
Twelve dessert-spoons
Six dessert-forks
Five basting-spoons
A salad-fork
Two Fiddle pattern sauce-ladles, 1790
All contained in a felt lined brass-bound oak canteen
174 oz. (5,403 gr.) (80)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Alleyne FitzHerbert, later 1st Baron St. Helens (1753-1839) as Ambassador to The Hague (1789-1790) or Madrid (1790-1794) and by descent.
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