Hanoverian pattern table silver, Mappin & Webb Ltd., Sheffield, the majority 1911

comprising: eight table spoons, twenty-four table forks, twenty-four dessert forks, twenty-four dessert spoons, twenty-four soup spoons, eighteen table knives, eighteen dessert knives, both with crested ivory handles; twelve teaspoons, six coffee spoons, four sauce ladles, a sifting spoon, a serving spoon, a soup ladle, all crested, and twelve modern fish knives, Sheffield, 1996, in a fitted two-draw oak canteen box

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