Early Hanoverian pattern table silver, various makers and dates (1709-1736)

comprising: 12 table spoons, 12 table forks, 12 dessert spoons, 12 dessert forks, 14 various teaspoons, 2  pairs of basting spoons, a pair of sauce ladles, a soup ladle, twelve pistol-handled table knives with later steel blades, twelve pistol-handled dessert knives with later steel blades, in a wood case

Acquired from How of Edinburgh, 30 May 1966

11 three-pronged table forks, I. Davenport, London, 1712 and one ditto, London, 1709 6 table spoons, A. Archer, London, 1709; 6 table spoons, J. Cox, London, 1713 10 dessert spoons, H. Green, London, 1713; 2 dessert spoons, j. Broake, London, 1710 9 dessert forks, J. Barbe, London, 1739; 3 dessert forks, J. Jenkins, London, 1736-38 A pair of serving spoons, Ladyman and another pair, Spackman, London, 1713 5 teaspoons, E. Jennings, London, circa 1730; 5 teaspoons, J. Hopkins, circa 1722 Some overall wear commensurate with age and some wear to tines; the soup ladle is probably reshaped, otherwise good condition.
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