Modèle filet violon en Paris XVIIIe et XIXe, comprenant:
- Vingt-huit cuillères de table (dont seize gravées d'une armoirie sous couronne de marquis)
- Vingt-huit fourchettes de table (dont seize gravées des mêmes armoiries)
on y ajoute cinq cuillères à thé gravées d'une armoirie, Paris 1786-1787
Modèle filet, Genève et Lausanne XVIIIe, comprenant:
- Dix-huit cuillères de table,
- Dix-huit fourchettes de table, toutes gravées d'une armoirie sous couronne de baron
- Dix-huit couteaux de table modèle balustre filet gravés de la même armoiries avec lames acier,
Assortis à ce modèle sans armoiries par Hénin:
- Vingt-quatre couteaux à poisson
- Vingt-quatre fourchettes à poisson
- Vingt-quatre fourchettes à huître
- Dix-huit fourchettes à escargot/homard
Modèle filet violon, par Hénin:
- Vingt-deux cuillères à dessert
- Vingt-quatre fourchettes à dessert
- Vingt-quatre couteaux à fruits, manche pistolet fileté et lame argent
On y ajoute:
- Douze couteaux de taille, manche pistolet agrémenté d'enroulements et lames acier
- Quatorze couteaux, modèle filet, en vermeil, lame acier
- Six couteaux à fromage, modèle filet, en argent, lame acier
- Six couteaux à fruit, modèle filet, lame et manche en argent, tous graves de crêts
- Une louche modèle filet violon, France XVIIIe
- Une paire de cuillères à sauce, modèle filet violon gravé d'un cimier, par william Eley et William Fearn, Londres, 1815
- Une autre paire de cuillères à sauce, modèle uni-plat gravé d'un cimier, par Carden Terry, Cork, vers 1780
- Une paire de cuillères à sel, modèle filet coquille, par Germain Chaye, Paris, 1763
- Dix petites cuillères modèle guilloché gravé d'une initiale 'M', Angleterre XVIIIe
poinçons sur les manches et/ou les lames
Dans un cabinet en bois teinté
14702 gr. (472 oz. 13 dwt.)

A LARGE COMPOSITE SILVER TABLE SERVICE, BY VARIOUS MAKERS AND DATES INCLUDING PARIS, 1787, ILLEGIBLE MAKER'S MARK, LAURENT LABBE, PARIS, 1838-1852, PROBABLY DORDRECHT, END OF THE 18TH CENTURY, ELIE PAPUS AND PIERRE-HENRY DAUTUN, LAUSANNE, CIRCA 1760, ETIENNE TERROUX, GENEVA, 1762-1764, HENIN ET COMPAGNIE, PARIS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY; LONDRES, 1806

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Marks clear to illegible; engraving clear to worn.
Some light scratching and pitting consistent with age and use.
Fiddle and thread: all engraved with the same coat-of-arms: nine table spoons and five table forks by Ange-Rene Labbe, 1838-1852, one spoon with small dent; three forks and four spoons by Bazile Chenaillier, Paris, 1824-1829; Two spoons with maker's mark LD, 1798-1809, province (marks worn); Seven table forks by Jean Toulon, Paris, 1798-1813; One table fork and one spoon, Paris, 1789, with maker's mark partly legible DB? Of the same pattern but with no coat-of-arms possibly erased and slightly narrower: twelve table forks and twelve table spoons, Paris, 1787, with maker's mark illegible. All very heavy gauge.

The Swiss thread pattern comprising: twelve table spoons and twelve table forks by ELIE PAPUS ET PIERRE-HENRY DAUTUN, LAUSANNE, VERS 1760 and six table spoons and six table forks by ETIENNE TERROUX, GENEVE, 1762-1764, all of the same model and with the same engraved coat-of-arms, with some light scratching, two tines very slightly bent. Together with eighteen table knives with illegible marks, with light scratching and replaced blades; seven with excess glue visible at junction of blades to handles.

The Henin et compagnie pieces comprising: the fish knives/forks, the oyster forks, the lobster/snails forks: very light scratching en suite with the Swiss pieces; the dessert forks and spoons and fruit knives also by Henin of a slightly different model: some very light scratching, especially on the knives handles.

The twelve table knives scrolling pistol handles: marks partially legible (date-letter X), with replaced steel blades and with some very light scratching.

The thread knives comprising: fourteen silver-gilt table knives (small model), six cheese knives and six fruit knives: marks partly legible, engraving worn; the gilt metal blades all later replacement, and with some scratching and light wear; the fruit knives with pitting and nicks to the blades; the cheese knives: three with split handles and with gap between handles and blades; blades later replacement.

The ladle with illegible marks, possibly Paris, circa 1787, engraving clear, with some light scratching.
The salt spades: marks legible to clear, light wear.
The fiddle and thread teaspoons with legible marks, some wear and scratches, two very slightly bent at the stem.
The wooden case with some minor scuffs marks, some felt elements ungluing in places.

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