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Lot 540
A George V Silver Tea & Coffee Service
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The five piece service including a coffee pot (8.75 in.), teapot, parcel gilt sugar bowl, and creamer with marks of Elkington & Co. and Birmingham (1928 or 1929) hallmarks, and a spirit kettle with mark of Birks in Canada; with rattan wrapped handles, each of melon form with finely engraved decoration, all presented atop a very fine silverplate tray with mark of Ellis-Barker Silver Co., each piece with Radcliffe family crest engraved above the motto "Virtus Propter Se" (Valor for its own sake) (LOA 28 in.).

111.9 total weighable troy oz.

Spirit kettle missing pins and with dent to body; minor ding to teapot; dent to coffee pot.

$1,500 - 2,500