A late-Victorian silver Fiddle and Thread canteen for twenty-four, by Gibson and Langman, London 1898, the terminals crested, comprising: twenty-four tablespoons, twenty-four table forks, twenty-four dessert forks, (one by J. Hunt London 1863), twenty-four teaspoons, twenty-eight dessert spoons, (one by J. Hunt London 1863), four sauce ladles, a pair of basting spoons and two butter knives, plus sixteen fruit forks, eleven fruit knives (1897), four fruit knives (Sheffield 1924), thirty-three dessert knives, (by the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London 1902 and other makers), twenty four various table knives, Victorian and later, various makers, plus a pair of electroplated salad servers and an electroplated Old English pattern soup ladle, in a fitted wooden case with pull-out trays, approx. weighable 237oz. (qty) The crest is that of Hardy and Gathorne, family of the Earls of Cranbrook. Read more »
A late-Victorian silver Fiddle and Thread canteen for twenty-four, by Gibson and Langman, London 1898, the terminals crested, comprising: twenty-four tablespoons, twenty-four table forks, twenty-four dessert forks, (one by J. Hunt London 1863), twenty-four teaspoons, twenty-eight dessert spoons, (one by J. Hunt London 1863), four sauce ladles, a pair of basting spoons and two butter knives, plus sixteen fruit forks, eleven fruit knives (1897), four fruit knives (Sheffield 1924), thirty-three dessert knives, (by the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London 1902 and other makers), twenty four various table knives, Victorian and later, various makers, plus a pair of electroplated salad servers and an electroplated Old English pattern soup ladle, in a fitted wooden case with pull-out trays, approx. weighable 237oz. (qty) The crest is that of Hardy and Gathorne, family of the Earls of Cranbrook. Read more »
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