Buyers premium 25%+vat
A VICTORIAN SCOTTISH SILVER COMPOSITE FOUR PIECE TEA SET (4)
Comprising; a teapot, a sugar bowl and a milk jug, Glasgow 1879, maker W W L and a hot water jug, Glasgow 1876, maker Robert Scott, the bodies decorated with signs of the zodiac and in the Asian taste, the hot water jug presentation inscribed, the two larger pieces having ivory insulators to the handles, combined gross weight 2025 grams
| Estimate: | £1,000 - £1,500 |
| Hammer price: | £1,700 |
Footnotes:
This lot contains ivory
and has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section10). Reference teapot; GTJJCPQ4, hot water jug; N7NAJAUJ
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including materials such as coral, ivory, and tortoiseshell. Therefore, it is
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Condition Report
The teapot; some haircracks to the ivory insulators, dent to the footrim just below the handle, otherwise a few further surface marks, otherwise in good condition
the hot water jug; haircracks to the ivory insulators to the handle, three or four shallow dents to the footrim. Wing nuts to the lids of the larger pieces slightly differ, these look hand made, small dent to the body at the top of the plain band.
Sugar bowl; shallow dent to the body.
Milk jug; good condition, both footrims of the sugar and milk are in good condition, all pieces are engraved K