A Set Of Twenty-Four George II Silver-Mounted Agate-Handled Dinner Knives, Circa 1750

with mottled brown and grey octagonal pistol handles, scalloped silver ferrule and steel scimitar blades, one blade stamped Underwood, possibly for Yeeling Underwood of Great Turnstyle, Lincolns Inn Fields, circa 1800, otherwise apparently unmarked, in fitted oak box

length of knives 9 ¾ in.; 14.5 cm

length of box 12 in.; 30.5 cm