A George V silver five-piece coffee set, Cooper Brothers & Sons Ltd, Sheffield, 1926

the otherwise plain fluted vase-shaped bodies engraved with the initials MR below a ducal coronet (presumably for Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe), the coffee pot and hot-milk jug with silver handles, the undersides stamped 'S2043'; and a pair of silver sugar nips, engraved with the Crewe crest, maker's mark apparently P.B, London, circa 1745

coffee set: marks and condition mostly good, but the coffee pot has a split in the solder between the foot and the body; sugar nips: marks badly struck, condition worn, a split in one of the finger holes
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