Lot 488 , An extensive, almost complete canteen of late 19th/early 20th century French 950 standard silver fancy pattern cutlery, mainly by Gustave Keller of Paris

An extensive, almost complete canteen of late 19th/early 20th century French 950 standard silver fancy pattern cutlery, mainly by Gustave Keller of Paris, with monogram, comprising thirty tablespoons, fifty four table forks, pair of sauce ladles, pair of serving spoons and pair of serving forks, twenty four dessert forks, twenty four sorbet? spoons, small pair of sugar tongs, small serving shovel, spoon and fork, twenty four teaspoons, two large serving spoons (loaded), two serving knives (loaded), two white metal handled plated crumb scoops, forty five dessert knives, (loaded and twenty one with steel blades all rusted and some maker's mark differs) and forty two white metal handed steel table knives, weighable silver 364 oz, housed on six trays in an oak canteen, together with two plated candle snuffer a French white metal handled carving knife and fork, two small Christofle plated spoons and a late 19th century Russian 84 zolotnik spoon.
£3,500-4,500

Condition:
General signs of use, including minor nicks, scratches etc. commensurate with age. Twenty one blades in poor condition, as mentioned. Very tarnished in general. Trays scuffed in places. Box is marked in places, with some veneer loss around the base. One canteen handle broken.

Sold for £5,800