WICK – A RARE SET OF SIX SCOTTISH PROVINCIAL TABLE FORKS
JOHN SELLAR
Auction: Day 2: Thursday 21 August - Lots 297 - end
Description
marked JS, WICK, Old English pattern with crest of a seated cat and motto SANS PEUR above for Sutherland (6)
Dimensions
21.8cm long 14.8oz
Footnote
The survival of Scottish provincial forks is much rarer than those of spoons. These table forks are likely the only set of Wick forks still in existence together and unusually are of Old English pattern, as the vast majority of Wick flatware to survive is Fiddle Pattern.