Silver & Objects of Vertu - 24th January 2023
Lot 154
λA collection of Scottish silver single-struck King's pattern flatware
Estimate £1,500 - £2,500 | Hammer £1900
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Description
λA collection of Scottish silver single-struck King's pattern flatware,
by James Howden & Son and James & Walter Marshall, Edinburgh 1856,
the terminal with an initial, comprising: fourteen tablespoons, twelve table forks, eleven dessert forks, twelve dessert spoons, eight teaspoons, four salt spoons, a mustard spoon, a soup ladle, (1855) and a pair of basting spoons, plus a pair of sugar tongs, Edinburgh 1843, plus six Fiddle pattern table forks, by David Rait, Glasgow 1845, a pair of Fiddle pattern ladles, an unmarked toddy ladle, a small funnel, and eight electroplated Fiddle pattern tablespoons, in a fitted wooden case, approx. weighable 132oz. (qty)
Provenance: Sir James Balfour Paul, (1846-1931), Lord Lyon King of Arms, and then by family descent to the current owner.