A PARCEL-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE
MARKED GRACHEV, MAKER'S MARK OF KARL ALBREKHT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1884
Comprising twelve dinner knives, eleven snail forks, six spoons, a carving knife and a cheese knife, all chased to simulate basketweave, interiors of spoons gilt, marked on stems and blade of the carving knife; in the original fitted silk and velvet-lined wooden box stamped in Russian ‘Grachev’ and with the coat-of-arms of the Leslie family
8 ½ in. (21.7 cm.) long and smaller
52.96 oz. (1,647.1 gr.) gross
A PARCEL-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE
MARKED GRACHEV, MAKER'S MARK OF KARL ALBREKHT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1884
Comprising twelve dinner knives, eleven snail forks, six spoons, a carving knife and a cheese knife, all chased to simulate basketweave, interiors of spoons gilt, marked on stems and blade of the carving knife; in the original fitted silk and velvet-lined wooden box stamped in Russian ‘Grachev’ and with the coat-of-arms of the Leslie family
8 ½ in. (21.7 cm.) long and smaller
52.96 oz. (1,647.1 gr.) gross
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