CHARLES II SILVER GILT CUTLERY: TWO SETS, EACH COMPRISING A KNIFE, FORK AND SPOON

CHARLES II SILVER GILT CUTLERY: TWO SETS, EACH COMPRISING A KNIFE, FORK AND SPOON

C.1680
each knife with cannon handle engraved with panels of feathered lozenges and a single flowerhead to cap, both with iron blade, one with cutler's mark, probably Ephraim How, the other replaced and marked by Garrard, C.1850, with Royal 'VR' cypher, one knife with a crowned 'T T' maker's mark, possibly for Thomas Townley, London, both forks and spoons with trefid ends, finely engraved foliage and mask to front of stem, similar engraving and vacant oval cartouche to reverse. Each spoon again with mark of 'T T' (6)

11.4cm knife, 9.9cm fork, 10.2cm spoon

Literature

For a virtually identical knife, fork and spoon see 'British Cutlery: An Illustrated History of Design, Evolution and Use' (2001), p. 95, fig. 58.