Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 - 24 Jan 2012
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A Victorian silver Wellington Pattern No.1 canteen for eighteen
A Victorian silver Wellington Pattern No.1 canteen for eighteen,
by George Adams, London 1866,
the terminals engraved with a crest, comprising: eighteen table forks, eighteen tablespoons, eighteen dessert forks, twelve dessert spoons, twelve teaspoons, four salt spoons, three egg spoons, (one crest erased,) a soup ladle, a basting spoon, a pair of fish servers, a pair of sauce ladles, a butter knife, a pair of sugar tongs, (London 1863,) together with eighteen modern table knives and twelve modern dessert knives, London 2006, in a later fitted wooden case, approx. weighable 235oz.