A RARE COMPOSITE GEORGE III SILVER PART TABLE SERVICE OF HANOVERIAN THREAD & DROP PATTERN FLATWARE

MARK OF GEORGE SMITH, LONDON, 1773, JOHN LAMBE, LONDON, 1783, RICHARD CROSSLEY, LONDON, 1791 AND 1795 AND THE FISH SLICE ALONE MARK OF FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1868

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A RARE COMPOSITE GEORGE III SILVER PART TABLE SERVICE OF HANOVERIAN THREAD & DROP PATTERN FLATWARE
MARK OF GEORGE SMITH, LONDON, 1773, JOHN LAMBE, LONDON, 1783, RICHARD CROSSLEY, LONDON, 1791 AND 1795 AND THE FISH SLICE ALONE MARK OF FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1868
Comprising:- 14 table forks, 2 basting spoons, 8 dessert spoons and 11 table spoons by George Smith, 1773; 17 table forks by John Lambe, 1783; 9 table forks and 12 table spoons by Richard Crossley, 1791 and 2 dessert spoons by the same maker, 1795; also a fish slice of 18th century style by Francis Higgins, 1868, mostly engraved with the arms of Godolphin within the Garter strap and surmounted by a duke's coronet
175 oz. (5425 gm.)

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Ian Pickford comments in his book "Silver Flatware" that this is a very rare pattern and that "services from the eighteenth century, should they exist, would be extremely rare and to build a service would be impossible"

MARK OF GEORGE SMITH, LONDON, 1773, JOHN LAMBE, LONDON, 1783, RICHARD CROSSLEY, LONDON, 1791 AND 1795 AND THE FISH SLICE ALONE MARK OF FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1868

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