Comprising; a soup ladle, London 1862, a stuffing spoon, London 1876, a pair of sauce ladles, London 1901, twelve tablespoons, twelve table forks, a pair of fish servers, London 1861, four salt spoons, a pair of pickle spoons, sixteen dessert forks, fourteen dessert spoons, a butter knife, six grapefruit spoons and twelve teaspoons, the rest mixed dates and makers, combined weight of weighable silver 6045 gms, also nine steel bladed table knives, eighteen silver bladed dessert knives,
Estimate: | £3,000 - £5,000 |
Hammer price: | £3,000 |
twenty-five silver pronged dessert forks, twelve silver bladed fish knives, ten silver pronged fish forks with ivory handles, also a five piece piece carving set, twelve table knives and twelve cheese knives, contained in a gilt metal mounted four drawer wooden canteen cabinet, raised on four gilt ball and claw feet, with a stand
Provenance: Hylda and Lewis Gilbert, Sheldrake Place, London.
Lewis Gilbert (d.2018), the celebrated film director, producer and
screenwriter, best known for his 007 James Bond movies and Alfie.