An eighteen-piece set of silver-gilt and mother-of-pearl flatware, Carl Gustav Savary, St Petersburg, 1824, and maker's mark EL or GL, probably Gustav Lindgren, 1827

comprising: six fruit forks, six fruit knives, and six fruit spoons, the mother-of-pearl handles within mask-chased guards and terminals, 84 standard

Nice pieces by Savary, nine with other maker's mark in script, probably GL for Lindgren, but possibly EL unidentified. Some mounts are loose; there is some discolouration to the mother-of-pearl; minor wear to gilding. But most pieces are generally in good order.
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