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MOST FORKS AND SPOONS MAKER'S MARK LB AND FL, THE KNIVES MAKER'S MARK JA AND CEL, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
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A FRENCH SILVER AND SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE
MOST FORKS AND SPOONS MAKER'S MARK LB AND FL, THE KNIVES MAKER'S MARK JA AND CEL, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Hourglass shaped with knopped terminals, each engraved with a crest, comprising:
Top drawer:
Twenty-two table-spoons Twenty-three table-forks
Second drawer:
Twenty-four silver-gilt dessert-spoons Twenty-three silver-gilt fruit-knives, with silver-gilt blades
Twelve mustard spoons
Third drawer:
Twenty-four dessert-spoons Twenty-four teaspoons
Twenty-four ice-cream spoons
Fourth drawer:
Twenty-four dessert-forks Twenty-four cheese-knives, with steel blades
A pair of salad servers
Fifth drawer:
Twenty-four table-knives
in fitted metal-mounted oak canteen with hinged cover and fall front
the case 21 1/4 in. (54 cm.) wide
weighable silver 296 oz. 4 dwt. (9,214 gr.)
MOST FORKS AND SPOONS MAKER'S MARK LB AND FL, THE KNIVES MAKER'S MARK JA AND CEL, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Hourglass shaped with knopped terminals, each engraved with a crest, comprising:
Top drawer:
Twenty-two table-spoons Twenty-three table-forks
Second drawer:
Twenty-four silver-gilt dessert-spoons Twenty-three silver-gilt fruit-knives, with silver-gilt blades
Twelve mustard spoons
Third drawer:
Twenty-four dessert-spoons Twenty-four teaspoons
Twenty-four ice-cream spoons
Fourth drawer:
Twenty-four dessert-forks Twenty-four cheese-knives, with steel blades
A pair of salad servers
Fifth drawer:
Twenty-four table-knives
in fitted metal-mounted oak canteen with hinged cover and fall front
the case 21 1/4 in. (54 cm.) wide
weighable silver 296 oz. 4 dwt. (9,214 gr.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 14 November 1988, lot 119.
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