Lot 271
A comprehensive silver gilt table canteen of cutlery and flatware,
Auction: 27 May 2004 at 13:00 BST
Description
with marks for London 1975, by Aspreys. Twelve covers each of:
First drawer: soup spoons, dessert forks, dessert spoons, fruit knives and forks (silver gilt blades and tines), two sauce ladles, three piece carving set (65);
Second drawer: coffee spoons, tea spoons, tables knives, table forks, side knives, carving knife and fork (62);
Third drawer: fish knives and forks (silver gilt blades and tines), six serving spoons, pair of salad severs, pair of basting spoons, pair of basting forks, cake knife and fork (silver gilt blades and tines), soup ladle (39).
All of double struck grape and vine pattern in a cross banded mahogany bowfront canteen on square tapered legs
Dimensions
222oz weighable silver, not including fruit, fish knives and forks