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A good pair of sugar tongs made by Elkington in 1914 for P&O.

A deco period oval faceted body tea pot with paw style feet, Sheffield made. Capacity c. 1.5 pints.

A larger sized Victorian electroplated bottle coaster with a Greek key style rim and turned wooden base. Made by Silber & Fleming.

A vintage canteen of Viners Sandringham pattern for 6 settings, the pull out drawer hosting a set of fish eaters and the top layer comprising 6 each of dinner fork, side fork, dinner knife, side knife, large dessert spoon, soup spoon, teaspoon, coffee spoon. Total of 60 pieces. Knives are obviously steel bladed, fish set also has steel uppers and plated handles. Note that there are no tablespoons, nor is there a slot for them.

A vintage brown bakelite knife sharpener by Rotary in its original card box.

Here are 2 good looking servers - a berry bowl example with a nicely shaped handle and a particularly nice large apostle spoon with exaggerated crimp work to bowl and bright cut finishing to the handle.

A set of 6 early c.20th Chinese 'good luck' spoons, handmade and having applied mother of pearl panels set with gold coloured character. In mock-croc case.

A very fine looking large basting spoon (these also make great serving spoons!)

This is quite an interesting case - its is made from steel that has been deliberately burnished (fire blackened) and has a sapphire-opal coloured 'stone' set button in what appears to be a gold mount (untested). The interior is engraved 'F.E.ELLIOTT FROM CAPT THOMPSON THE CASTLE DOVER 1900-1906'.

A nice small cigar/cheroot cutter with a gently planished (hand-hammered) surface. Simply marked '930S' - probably Norwegian (Marius Hammer in particular used this standard occasionally). The cutting aperture is quite small at 1cm.

Here are 2 nice pieces of vintage butter advertising, a New Zealand Butter 1925 empire exhibition one and an Anchor Butter logo handled one.

A good antique Chinese export silver spoon by Wing Nam & Co c. 1900. Will be c. 900 standard. Gilt wash to bowl interior.

A lovely looking pair of Malaysian origin silver salad servers.

A set of 6 silver plated dessert forks made by Frank Cobb & Co of Sheffield and bearing design registration number equating to 1919.

A nice sized pair of serving bowls by BSL (Elkington) date marked 'e' for manufacture in 1965. These interestingly also bear a royal household St James Crown mark to their undersides and a '1967'. Possibly related to the launch of the Cunard QE2 ship in 1967.

A pair of silver plated jugs of c one half of a pint capacity, each with hand engraved chasing.

A nice little castor with a part hobnail body.

An unusual early c.20th 3 piece EPBM set by Atkin Bros with strong Celtic decoration. Pot capacity 1.5 pints.

A set of 5 soup spoons by Smith Seymour of Sheffield in their Kenilworth pattern.

A set of 6 dessert spoons by Smith Seymour of Sheffield in their Kenilworth pattern.