A mahogany table canteen containing an extensive part-set of Hanoverian rat-tail silver flatware, comprising twelve each table and dessert forks, soup spoons and coffee spoons, eleven each dessert spoons and teaspoons, six each tablespoons and egg spoons, four sauce ladles, soup ladle, two butter knives, two pairs of sugar tongs, pickle forks and spoons, Elkington & Co, Birmingham - various dates 1904-47 (but mostly 1911/12), 151oz (4719g) total of weighable silver; lot also includes twelve each (non-matching) silver dessert knives and forks with ivory handles, also Elkington & Co, Birmingham 1912, twelve each (non-matching) electroplated fish knives and forks twelve ivory-handled table knives and eleven cheese knives by James Dixon & Son; The table of D-end form with hinged top to baize-lined fitted interior, on moulded square tapering supports with brass castors, 91cm wide Buyers premium 30% (inc VAT)