George III Sterling Silver Flatware Suite for Twelve, 1780s-1810
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A George III sterling silver matched suite of flatware for twelve, various London and Edinburgh makers and date 1780s-1810, Old English bead-edge pattern, eighty-nine pieces, comprising twelve each of entree knives and forks, dinner knives and forks, soup spoons, table spoons, and tea spoons, together with four serving spoons and a soup ladle, the terminals engraved with various crests, fitted in a twentieth century walnut case, 2,912g in total (not including the knives with steel blades). Provenance: Martin of Melbourne, 1993
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- 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. - Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.
- George Iii - George III (1738 - 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.
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