A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT DESSERT SERVICE MARK OF HENRY HOLLAND LONDON, 1878 Queen's pattern, engraved with ' L' cypher below a Royal coronet encircled by a marquess' coronet, comprising: Twenty-four dessert-forks Twenty-four dessert-spoons Twenty-four dessert knives with silver-gilt blades Twenty-four cheese knives with stainless steel blades, two apparently unmarked contained in a later green velvet lined case, labelled for D.S. Lavender 100 oz. (3,120 gr.) The initial is for Princess Louise Marchioness of Lorne, later Duchess of Argyll (1838-1939), 4th daughter of Queen Victoria (r.1837-1901) and wife of John, Marquess of Lorne, later 9th Duke of Argyll (1845-1914). (96)
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT DESSERT SERVICE MARK OF HENRY HOLLAND LONDON, 1878 Queen's pattern, engraved with ' L' cypher below a Royal coronet encircled by a marquess' coronet, comprising: Twenty-four dessert-forks Twenty-four dessert-spoons Twenty-four dessert knives with silver-gilt blades Twenty-four cheese knives with stainless steel blades, two apparently unmarked contained in a later green velvet lined case, labelled for D.S. Lavender 100 oz. (3,120 gr.) The initial is for Princess Louise Marchioness of Lorne, later Duchess of Argyll (1838-1939), 4th daughter of Queen Victoria (r.1837-1901) and wife of John, Marquess of Lorne, later 9th Duke of Argyll (1845-1914). (96)
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