Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 - 24th January 2012

Lot 319

A Victorian silver-gilt travelling knife

Estimate £400 - £500 | Hammer £780

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Description

A Victorian silver-gilt travelling knife, fork and spoon set, by Frederic Purnell, London 1880, with three tapering handles which fit inside each other, the smallest also houses a corkscrew, engraved with a bee crest, in a fitted vase, length of knife 17.5cm.