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A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY, LATER-DECORATED, CANADIAN TABLE SPOONS Fiddle pattern, by Peter Nordbeck of Halifax, Nova Scotia 1840-60; 4.1 oz (2) £20-40 (+ 30% BP*)
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AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY NORWEGIAN CASED SET OF SIX SMALL FORKS with coloured enamel stems, and a card box containing a set of six similarly enamelled coffee spoons, by David Andersen of Oslo; 3.9 oz (2) £50-80 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III OLD ENGLISH PATTERN TABLESPOONS initialled, by Richard Crossley, London 1795, a pair of Old English pattern table spoons, crested, by Mary Chawner, London 1839 and a set of six late Victorian Grecian pattern dessert spoons, by Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1895; 27.1 oz (14) £240-280 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SMALL GROUP OF SIX EARLY 18TH CENTURY MOUNTED, AGATE-HANDLED FORKS & TWO KNIVES with steel tines and blades (one knife with a cutler's mark on the blade and one fork initialled); the knives 7.9" (20 cms) long (8) £80-120 (+ 30% BP*)
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OLD ENGLISH PATTERN DESSERT SPOONS:- A set of three by W. Eley & W. Fearn, London 1802, initialled "G", five by George Adams and one by William Eaton, London 1844 with initials and crests; 11 oz (9) £80-100 (+ 30% BP*)
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A CURIOUS SET OF FOUR BLADES with notched ends, a pierced slot down their length and a mounting rivet at the end of one side, by Joseph Law, Sheffield 1814; 3.55" (9 cms) long; 0.9 oz (4) £100-150 (+ 30% BP*)
*Perhaps these originally had sides or palettes (of bone or ivory?) and are the blades of folding fruit knives.
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A MATCHED PAIR OF LATE 20TH/EARLY 21ST CENTURY CAST NOVELTY CAVIAR SPOONS the stems realistically modelled as sturgeon, by Sarah Jones, London 1986/2012*; 4.4" (11.2 cms) long; 2.3 oz (2) £80-120 (+ 30% BP*)
*The 2012 hallmarked example is also struck with a special mark to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
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AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY PART-CANTEEN OF SANDRINGHAM PATTERN FLATWARE TO INCLUDE:- Four table spoons, twelve table forks, twelve dessert spoons, ten dessert forks, twelve soup spoons, nine tea spoons & one jam spoon, one place setting inscribed with a name, all by E. Viner, Sheffield 1932/33, all contained in a fitted walnut side table, together with twelve stainless steel table knives & six side knives with bone handles; the table measuring 25.8" (66 cms) long; 108 oz weighable silver £800-850 (+ 30% BP*)
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A COLLECTED OR HARLEQUIN PART-DESSERT SERVICE TO INCLUDE:- Twelve Victorian dessert knives and twelve Victorian two-prong dessert forks to match, by Francis Higgins, London 1885, all with George II/III pistol handles, and eleven early George II Hanoverian pattern dessert spoons, with plain rattails, mixed makers & dates, all of the above contained in a fitted canteen box; the box measuring 16.9" (43 cms) long; 10.2 oz weighable silver (35) £150-200 (+ 30% BP*)
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AN ART DECO HANDMADE SPOON with a hammered finish & a drop-shaped bowl, by Reynell Oswald Huysche**, London 1931 together with a small handmade Scottish runcible spoon with applied concentric rings on the terminal, by Mary Syme Boyd*, Edinburgh 1938; the latter 5.5" (14 cms) long; 1.9 oz (2) £100-150 (+ 30% BP*)
*Mary Syme Boyd, artist & sculptor studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and is most noted for her naturalistic animal studies and allegorical subjects. She exhibited at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute.
** Reynell Huysche was stepbrother to and trained by George Hart of the Guild of Handicraft at Chipping Campden, and when the Guild was wound up in 1908, Huysche went into partnership with Hart and later taught at Gravesend Art School.
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A SET OF THREE VICTORIAN FIDDLE, THREAD & SHELL PATTERN TABLE SPOONS (with an unusual convex shell heel), engraved with an Earl's crest & coronet, by George Adams, London 1848 and a set of three Victorian table spoons in the same pattern (but with diamond shell heel), maker's mark "WB", London 1838; 20 oz (6) £150-200 (+ 30% BP*)
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A VICTORIAN SILVERGILT SUGAR SIFTER SPOON with a shaped bowl and chased borders on the stem, by William Smith (of Liverpool), Chester 1877 and a Scottish toddy ladle, initialled "ARK", maker's mark "W.D", Glasgow 1829; the sifter spoon 6.3" (16 cms) long; 2 oz (2) £60-80 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III FIDDLE PATTERN TEA SPOONS initialled, by George Turner, Exeter 1817, three other George III tea spoons, initialled, and a pair of George III silvergilt naturalistic sugar tongs, maker's mark unclear, London 1812; the tongs 5.25" (13.5 cms) long; 7 oz (10) £40-60 (+ 30% BP*)
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THIRTEEN VARIOUS PISTOL-HANDLED KNIVES mixed designs, dates & makers (steel blades) (13) £80-120 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III NORTH COUNTRY PROVINCIAL TABLE FORKS Old English pattern, crested, by J. Hampston & J. Prince, York 1784; 11.6 oz (6) £100-150 (+ 30% BP*)
*Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
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A QUANTITY OF 20TH CENTURY FRENCH ELECTROPLATED FLATWARE & CUTLERY all stamped with the crest/emblem of the "George V Hotel" Paris (lot) £20-40 (+ 30% BP*)
*Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
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A QUANTITY OF ASSORTED OLD ENGLISH PATTERN FLATWARE TO INCLUDE:- Twelve table spoons, three table forks, four dessert spoons, seven dessert forks, two tea spoons, eight condiment spoons, a small sifter ladle and two butter knives, mixed dates, George III - Victorian, the vast majority either crested or initialled; 53 oz (39) £400-450 (+ 30% BP*)
*Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
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IRISH FIDDLE RATTAIL PATTERN FLATWARE TO INCLUDE:- A set of five George IV table spoons, a set of seven George III tea spoons, crested, a set of six George III tea spoons, crested, a pair of George IV sauce ladles, a pair of William IV toddy ladles, and a pair of Victorian sauce ladles, crested & initialled, mixed makers & dates; 30.8 oz (24) £250-300 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF FOUR LATE VICTORIAN QUEEN'S PATTERN SALT SPOONS (with honey suckle heel), crested, by Charles Boyton, London 1892; 3.4 oz (4) £60-80 (+ 30% BP*)
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ASSORTED ANTIQUE FIDDLE PATTERN TO INCLUDE:- One table spoon, five table forks, six dessert spoons, six dessert forks and a sauce ladle, mixed makers & dates, George IV - Victorian, most pieces either crested or initialled; 37.3 oz (19) £300-350 (+ 30% BP*)
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IRISH FIDDLE PATTERN:- Thirty five dessert spoons, seventeen dessert forks, six table forks & two egg spoons, some pieces crested, some initialled, mixed makers and dates, all Dublin-marked, George III - Victorian; 72.6 oz (60) £600-650 (+ 30% BP*)
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A QUANTITY OF ASSORTED IRISH FIDDLE PATTERN TO INCLUDE:- Three table forks, eighteen dessert spoons, twenty dessert forks, eleven tea spoons & six various small ladles, some pieces crested, mixed makers and dates, all Dublin-marked, George III - Victorian; 64.4 oz (58) £500-600 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF SIX VICTORIAN FIDDLE & THREAD PATTERN DESSERT FORKS by Messrs. Lias, London 1866 and a set of three dessert spoons, same pattern, by Francis Higgins, London 1858, all of the above initialled to match; 17.5 oz (9) £140-180 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III PICTURE-BACK TEA SPOONS Hanoverian pattern, with a basket of flowers below the drop, initialled "A" by Thomas & William Chawner, London c.1765 (maker's mark & lion passant only); 2.95 oz (6) £200-250 (+ 30% BP*)
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MISCELLANEOUS FLATWARE TO INCLUDE:- Thirteen dessert spoons, four dessert forks, a pair of sauce ladles, a single sauce ladle, three tea spoons, crested and eight salt spoons (some crested), a soup ladle, crested and three knives (with steel blades), mixed makers & dates, George III - modern; 39.4 oz weighable silver (39) £320-360 (+ 30% BP*)
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MISCELLANEOUS FLATWARE:- A George III Old English pattern sauce ladle, a George III table spoon, a child's spoon & fork, a set of five Victorian egg spoons, a set of four modern cake forks, a pair of George III dessert spoons, five various tea spoons and three small forks, some pieces initialled; 17.6 oz (23) £140-160 (+ 30% BP*)
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A GEORGE III MARROW SCOOP Old English pattern, by either John Blake or James Beattie, London 1802; 8.7" (22 cms) long; 1.45 oz £100-120 (+ 30% BP*)
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AN EARLY 17TH CENTURY UNASCRIBED PROVINCIAL SEAL TOP SPOON with a "bobbin" terminal, struck once in the bowl with a town mark (indistinct), 1600-1640; 5.75" (14.6 cms) long; 0.95 oz £200-300 (+ 30% BP*)
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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SERVING SPOONS with engraved bordered bowls and cornucopiae finials, by F. Wilson & W. Davis, London 1879 together with a pair of early George II sugar nips, initialled, unmarked c.1725 and a pair of close-plated snuffers; the spoons 11.2" (28.4 cms) long; 6.9 oz weighable silver (4) £100-130 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF SIX GEORGE III OLD ENGLISH PATTERN TEA SPOONS initialled "MP", London 1788, an oyster fork, initialled, London 1785, a cream ladle, same date, and a set of four salts spoons, initialled "H", also same date, all of the above by Richard Crossley; 5.1 oz (12) £100-150 (+ 30% BP*)
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A GEORGE III CADDY SCOOP with pricked borders, by Joseph Taylor, Birmingham 1809, a George III caddy spoon with a bright-cut stem, initialled "EB", by S. Godbehere, E. Wigan and J. Bult, London 1801 and a pair of Edwardian mounted steel, folding scissors, maker's mark "WM", Chester 1905; the scissors 2" (5 cms) long (closed); 0.5 oz weighable silver (3) £140-160 (+ 30% BP*)
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A COMMONWEALTH / CHARLES II ASCRIBED WEST COUNTRY APOSTLE SPOON "ST JUDE" with cross, and sacred dove nimbus, on a straight-sided stem, pricked on the back of the bowl with the initials "IW" over "IB" over "1666", struck once in the bowl and three times on the back of the stem with "London Forgery Group" marks*, by Samuel Cawley (I), Exeter 1650-66; 7.75" (19.7 cms) long; 1.85 oz £400-500 (+ 30% BP*)
*For further details of these marks and the Cawley workshops see Kent, T.A: West Country Spoons & their Makers pp5, 73, & 74.
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A CONTEMPORARY PART-SET OF LOUIS XIV PATTERN FLATWARE & CUTLERY TO INCLUDE:- A set of seven side knives (with stainless steel blades) and a set of six fruit knives and six fruit forks to match (with stainless steel blades & tines), all by Robert & Belk, Sheffield 1990/2007 (19) £100-150 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF TWENTY TWO GEORGE III TABLE KNIVES with tapering and thread decorated handles and steel scimitar blades, together with a set of thirteen slightly smaller table knives to match with steel finger point blades and a set of eight side knives also to match with steel finger point blades, all crested & all by William Abdy, London c.1790 (maker's mark & lion passant only) (43) £200-300 (+ 30% BP*)
*Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
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A SET OF SIX AMERICAN ART NOUVEAU IRIAN PATTERN TABLE SPOONS and eleven tea spoons to match, with the script monogram "EM" on the back of the terminals, by R. Wallace & Sons, Connecticut c.1900, contained in two boxes, 25.6 oz (2) £250-300 (+ 30% BP*)
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IRISH FIDDLE PATTERN:- A set of seven George IV table spoons, crested, maker's mark "IS", Dublin 1829 and a collected set of twelve table forks by three different makers, all crested to match, Dublin 1807/08; 41.8 oz (19) £350-400 (+ 30% BP*)
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A SET OF SIX EARLY 19TH CENTURY CHINESE FIDDLE PATTERN DESSERT FORKS, with pseudo marks, by Cumshing of Canton c.1820; 7.25 oz (6) £50-70 (+ 30% BP*)
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ELEVEN VARIOUS HANOVERIAN PATTERN TABLE SPOONS all crested/initialled, mixed makers & dates (including a George II Scottish example, five George II examples, two George III examples and three Victorian examples; 22.8 oz (11) £170-200 (+ 30% BP*)
*Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
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A SMALL QUANTITY OF VICTORIAN FIDDLE FLATWARE to include five table spoons, two dessert spoons, a butter knife, a sugar sifter ladle, a pair of sugar tongs, three sauce ladles, an egg spoon and three condiment spoons, all crested to match, by George Adams, London, mixed dates 1845-50; 28.9 oz (17) £200-300 (+ 30% BP*)
*Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
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A MIXED LOT:- Eleven various antique tea spoons, two mustard spoons, a pair of sugar nips, a pair of sugar tongs, a small condiment or cream ladle & a butter knife, mixed makers & dates, most pieces either crested or initialled; 12.9 oz (17) £70-90 (+ 30% BP*)
*Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
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A MISCELLANEOUS LOT:- Twelve table forks, seven table spoons, twenty one dessert forks, six dessert spoons & fourteen tea spoons, mixed designs, makers & dates, some pieces crested; 90 oz (60) £750-800 (+ 30% BP*)
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AN EDWARDIAN SET OF FIVE KING'S PATTERN TABLE KNIVES & THIRTEEN SIDE KNIVES TO MATCH by Harrison Brothers & Howson, Sheffield 1907 (steel blades) and a matched set of six Thread & Shell pattern table knives by two makers (Mary Chawner & George Adams, and George Adams), London 1840/43 (steel blades) (24) £100-200 (+ 30% BP*)
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A CASED SET OF SIX LATE VICTORIAN TEA SPOONS & MATCHING PAIR OF SUGAR TONGS with fluted bowls and "Apostle" terminals, maker's mark unclear, Birmingham 1896, a cased set of six modern coffee spoons, by Roberts & Belk, Sheffield and a cased set of six tea spoons, enamelled on the terminals with the Arms of the City of Shrewsbury: 6.1 oz (3) £80-120 (+ 30% BP*)
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A MIXED LOT:- A cased set of six bean-end coffee spoons, a cased set of six tea knives (stainless steel blades), six George III Irish tea spoons with engraving (contained in a box), five Fiddle pattern tea spoons, initialled, and a cased set of four plated knife rests & two plated napkin rings; 6.25 oz weighable silver (lot) £60-100 (+ 30% BP*)
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A LATE 20TH CENTURY CADDY SPOON with a wire stem, a circular bowl, stamped with seven incuse flowers and a shaped terminal, stamped with a songbird and flowers, by John Harry Fenn (Feingold), London 1975; 3.4" (8.5 cms) long; 0.5 oz £80-120 (+ 30% BP*)
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A POST WAR HANDMADE CADDY SPOON with a "tree of life", pierced terminal, by Peter C. Cook*, London 1946; 4" (10 cms) long; 0.75 oz £200-300 (+ 30% BP*)
*Peter Cook registered his first mark in London in 1946, but was an apprentice to H.G. Murphy. In his youth Peter was taught silversmithing by the Kelseys and Mr Kelsey had been with Charles Robert Ashbee at the Guild of Handicrafts.
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A CASED SET OF SIX POST-WAR COFFEE SPOONS Monte Carlo pattern, by Geoffrey G. Bellamy, Sheffield 1958, and another cased set of five coffee spoons to match, by the same maker, Sheffield 1960; 3 oz (2) £100-150 (+ 30% BP*)
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FOUR CADDY SPOONS:- A George III leaf spoon by Joseph Taylor, Birmingham 1799, two other antique caddy spoons, both initialled, both by Joseph Wilmore of Birmingham and a cased modern parcelgilt spoon to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II by A.E. Jones, Birmingham 2002; the latter 3.5" (9 cms) long; 1.75 oz (4) £120-160 (+ 30% BP*)
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A MIXED LOT OF FLATWARE:- Six various dessert spoons, two table spoons, five cake forks, seven pairs of sugar tongs, thirty nine various tea/coffee spoons, two small butter knives & three various forks (many pieces with crests/initials); 45.5 oz (64) £380-400 (+ 30% BP*)
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