A Victorian silver-gilt sugar basin with matching sifting spoon, the former of hexagonal form and decorated with flowers and foliage in the Eastern taste, applied with serpent with eagle's head handles and with two cartouches, one engraved with a monogram, the spoon with shell-fluted bowl and engraved with the same monogram, in a plush and quilted satin-lined fitted case, Aldwinkle & Slater overstriking another maker, the bowl 1887, the spoon 1885 - diameter of bowl 6½in. (16.50cm.) overall, 8.75oz. (2)