An American sterling silver cutlery canteen marked Wallace, sterling, comprising 9 dinner forks and knives, 3 large spoons, 9 dessert spoons, 19 coffee spoons, 13 teaspoons, 8 cocktail forks, 8 cake forks, caving knife and fork, 6 butter knives and eight small spoons. Handles all engraved with a gothis 'B'. Weight 3.4kg, circa 1930.
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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.
- 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.
- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
- Canteen - A small cabinet, table or a box with drawers or lift out trays, for storing a set of cutlery.
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