AN EXTENSIVE VICTORIAN AND LATER SILVER TABLE-SERVICE

AN EXTENSIVE VICTORIAN AND LATER SILVER TABLE-SERVICE
MARK OF WILLIAM GIBSON AND JOHN LANGMAN AND WILLIAM COMYNS, LONDON, MOSTLY 1892 AND 1898
Each piece stamped with Neptune on a matted ground and within scrolls, the backs engraved with a crest, comprising:

Drawer 1
Forty-eight teaspoons Forty-seven coffee-spoons

Drawer 2
One carving-knife Six carving-forks

Drawer 3
Thirty-six table-knives

Drawer 4
Thirty-six table-forks Thirty-six dessert-forks
Four butter-knives

Drawer 5
Twenty-four dessert-forks Twenty-eight cheese-knives
Seven egg-spoons, one differing

Drawer 6
Seventy-two table-forks Eleven condiment-spoons

Drawer 7
Thirty-six table-knives

Drawer 8
Thirty-one cheese-knives

Drawer 9
Thirty-three table-knives

Drawer 10
Twenty-six table-spoons, differing sizes
Twenty-four dessert-spoons

Drawer 11
Thirty-six dessert-spoons Twelve condiment spoons

Drawer 12
Thirty-four table-spoons
Four pairs of sugar-tongs, one by a differing maker

Drawer 13
Two soup-ladles Six sauce-ladles
Two basting-spoons
contained in a fitted mahogany finish canteen with two drop leaves, stamped Morant and Co., 91 New Bond Street London
The canteen - 28 x 17½ x 31 in. (71 x 44 x 79 cm.)
717 oz. (22,296 gr.) (602)