Beschreibung:

A French silver and silver-gilt composite table-service Marks of Gustave Odiot, Edouard Corvasier and others, Paris, various dates With elaborate foliate scroll and rocaille handles, the obverse with a cartouche engraved with a coat-of-arms with coronet above and with a vacant cartouche to the reverse, each marked on handle, base of tines or bowl, comprising: Twelve tablespoons Ninety-six table-forks Fifty-three table-knives, with stainelss steel blades Twelve hors d'oeuvre forks A pair of salad servers A small sifting spoon Two pastry servers A serving fork Silver-gilt pieces: Twelve dessert-forks Twenty-four ice-cream spoons Twenty-four dessert-knives with stainless steel blades A sifting spoon 449oz. (15,686gr.) without silver servers and knives The arms are those of Duc de Gramont de Guiche et de Lesapre (240)