Tuesday 8 June 2010

185 Piece Silver Canteen of Cutlery.

Delighted to be able to show this remarkable canteen of silver cutlery on today's blog after it emerged from the workshop this morning having had the top repolished. 12 full settings comprising 185 pieces of King's pattern cutlery in solid silver (excluding the knife blades) by Viners of Sheffield, hallmarked for 1957.

silver canteenFeaturing 12 of each small knives and forks, large knives and forks, fish knives and forks, fruit knives and forks, dessert spoons, tea spoons, egg spoons, grapefruit spoons, eighteen large serving spoons, large and small carving knife and fork, steel, pair berry spoons, bead knife, fish servers, ladles, pickle fork, salt and mustard spoons. Beautifully housed over four fitted drawers in the original mahogany cabinet on Queen Anne legs ending in ball and claw feet.

silver cutlery