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A magnificent, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver dessert service for twelve persons; an addition to our canteen of cutlery collection. The pieces of this magnificent, antique Victorian sterling silver cutlery service for twelve persons have been crafted in a Quilted Kings shape. Each piece of this Victorian dessert service in silver gilt is embellished with quilted ornamentation to the handle and stem. The decoration to each handle incorporates a bordered oval cartouche to the terminal and embellished to the anterior surface with the contemporary engraved initials 'CMB'; the cartouche to the reverse remains vacant. Each Kings-shaped handle is further ornamented with a paralleling rope twist decorated border, incorporating a feature knot motif to the terminal and drop/heel. This Victorian dessert service in silver gilt consists of 55 pieces: Basic Service: 12 dessert knives 12 dessert forks 12 dessert spoons 10 ice cream spoons additional pieces: 1 sauce ladle 4 serving spoons 4 salt spoons* The exceptional silver spoons and forks, in additional to the original dessert knives, have been crafted by the London flatware makers F B Thomas & Co (Francis Boone Thomas) and Francis Higgins II between 1863-1881. This magnificent service benefits from solid silver gilt serving pieces made by Francis Boone Thomas of F B Thomas & Co in 1881. Each piece of this exceptional antique Victorian dessert service retains the original gilding; this has some slight wear in keeping with age and in a sympathetic fashion. These impressive examples of antique silverware are supplied in felt cutlery rolls; which not only protect the items in storage but significantly reduces tarnishing. This dessert service is a segment of a more extensive canteen of cutlery which through time will have been divided. Although salt spoons would not traditionally be presented within a dessert service, the remaining pieces of the original cutlery set have been kept together. Condition This antique dessert service...