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Property of a Private Canadian Collection

A rare Victorian Admiralty pattern canteen, G.W. Adams for Chawner & Co, London, 1873/76

Lot Closed

May 26, 02:34 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Canadian Collection

A rare Victorian Admiralty pattern canteen, G.W. Adams for Chawner & Co

London, 1873/76


comprising:

12 table spoons

12 table forks

12 dessert forks

12 dessert spoons Hunt and Roskell and Francis Higgins & son

12 teaspoons and 2 sauce ladles Hunt & Roskell, London 1855

soup ladle, Francis Higgins & Son

12 table knives and 12 dessert knives with steel blades, CJ Vander, Sheffield, 1977

4550gr., 146oz. 6dwt., excluding knives

Previously sold, Replica Shoes 's London, Fine Silver and Vertu, 21 November 2002, lot 64
Examples of Admiralty pattern table silver are in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, including a soup ladle, maker's mark of G.W. Adams for Chawner & Co., London, 1853 (object ID: PLT0293 ). The accompanying note reads: 'Admiralty pattern silver of this type was in use by officers in Royal Navy wardrooms from 1842 until 1884 when instructions were issued for the substitution of electroplate.'