A burr walnut canteen containing a comprehensive sterling…
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A burr walnut canteen containing a comprehensive sterling silver Kings pattern flatware service for eighteen 19th century and later, the majority of maker's mark, W.D & Co., 1884-1887, comprising 18 each dinner forks, entree forks, dinner knives, entree knives, dessert spoons, table spoons, teaspoons, six coffee spoons, four salt spoons, four sauce ladles, mustard spoon, sugar spoon, sugar sifter, sugar tongs, soup ladle, two basting spoons and a fish knife. 8,244 grs total weight of silver excluding knives, 148 pieces

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  • Canteen - A small cabinet, table or a box with drawers or lift out trays, for storing a set of cutlery.
  • 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.
  • Marrow Spoon - A spoon with a long handle and a narrow scoop shaped bowl, used to scoop and eat marrow from the hollow centre of roasted bones. Some marrow scoops are double ended with a different shaped bowl at each end.
  • 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.
  • Burr - Burr (or in the USA, burl) is the timber from the knotted roots or deformed branch of the tree, which when cut, displays the small circular knots in various gradations of colour. It is always cut into a decorative veneer, most commonly seen as burr walnut on 19th century furniture.

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