A pair of George II silver sauce ladles and other Georgian silver flatware, Paul de Lamerie and others, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and York, 1719-1825

the ladles with fluted Onslow terminals cast with fruit pendants topped by a lion mask, engraved on backs with a boar crest below baron's coronet, one with maker's mark and lion passant on back of stem, the other apparently unmarked, the rest Early and Old English patterns, some crested and some with arms, comprising twenty-three three-prong table forks, London, 1719-89, eleven three-prong table forks, Michael Keating, Dublin, 1771, nine four-prong table forks, London, 1807/14, ten three-prong dessert forks, Paul Hanet, London, c. 1720, and another, London, 1762, five dessert spoons, London and Dublin, c. 1750, and Edinburgh, c. 1798, five tablespoons, Edinbugh, 1738, and London 1767 / 1818, two gravy spoons, York, 1825.  Together with a Louis XVI basting spoon, Paris, 1784, a spot-hammered mixed-metal berry spoon with applied cherries, Gorham, 1890 and twelve various other pieces. 82 pieces.

Argentum, San Francisco

some rubbing to ladles, unmarked example repaired above bowl; Hanet forks with blank cartouches, tines on Irish forks shortened, otherwise good
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