George Adams Silver Flatware Set, London 19th Century

• Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
• Flatware - An alternative name for items of cutlery, principally knives, forks and spoons, now generally used to describe sets of these implements. Nowadays it is mostly used when describing cutlery made of silver and silver plate.
  
  It is less frequently used to describe all "flat' items of tableware, so that as well as cutlery the definition includes plates.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Adams, George (London) - silver, maker or retailer 79
• Fearn, William (London) - silver, maker or retailer 161
• silver cutlery / flatware, patterns - fiddle and thread pattern 260
• silver cutlery / flatware, settings - unboxed 1,448
• Smith III, George and William Fearn (London) - silver, maker or retailer 175