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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT NOBLE ITALIAN FAMILY (LOTS 538-564)
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT DESSERT-SERVICE
MARK OF GEORGE ADAMS, LONDON, 1849
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A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT DESSERT-SERVICE
MARK OF GEORGE ADAMS, LONDON, 1849
Bright Vine pattern, engraved with a crest, comprising:
Twenty-four dessert-spoons Twenty-four dessert-forks
Eight berry-spoons An ice-cream spade
A pair of grape-scissors
Twenty-four fruit-knives with filled handles and silver-gilt blades
weighable silver 136 oz. (4,230 gr.)
The crest is that of Biscoe, probably for Thomas Porter Bonell Biscoe (1795-1881), of Newton, co. Inverness. He married Wilhelmina (d.1878), youngest daughter of Major Thomas Fraser of Newton, co. Inverness, in 1844. He purchased the Newton estate in 1850, the year his son and heir William Ramsay Biscoe was born.
MARK OF GEORGE ADAMS, LONDON, 1849
Bright Vine pattern, engraved with a crest, comprising:
Twenty-four dessert-spoons Twenty-four dessert-forks
Eight berry-spoons An ice-cream spade
A pair of grape-scissors
Twenty-four fruit-knives with filled handles and silver-gilt blades
weighable silver 136 oz. (4,230 gr.)
The crest is that of Biscoe, probably for Thomas Porter Bonell Biscoe (1795-1881), of Newton, co. Inverness. He married Wilhelmina (d.1878), youngest daughter of Major Thomas Fraser of Newton, co. Inverness, in 1844. He purchased the Newton estate in 1850, the year his son and heir William Ramsay Biscoe was born.
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