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Travelling Cutlery Set

Travelling Cutlery Set

Unidentified Artist

British

Comprising two cannon-shaped handles engraved with a continuous pattern of cherubs clamouring amid foliate scrolls within stiff leaf borders, into which screw a steel knife blade and a steel two-pronged fork; and a combination spoon with rat-tail bowl engraved with scrolling foliage and marrow scoop with similar decoration, the two handles and the back of the spoon bowl engraved with the initials G*H; in a fitted shagreen-covered case with wood inset and brass thumbpiece.

Silver, steel, shagreen, wood, silk, brass

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