four-antique-english-silver-servers
Lot 3316
Four Antique English Silver Servers
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first a George II silver toddy ladle with inset 1745 Lima shilling and turned hardwood handle, with period "PE" monogram to base of bowl (11 3/4 in.) (some mis-shaping to bowl, in need of re-attachment to handle); the second a Georgian tablespoon in the Onslow patter, obliterated marks (10 1/2 in.) (wear to bowl); and a pair of George III silver salt spoons with mark of John Lambe of London (1796), period "M" monogram (3 7/8 in.) (some wear to bowls).

3.6 total weighable troy oz.

The coin is struck Lima to commemorate the fact the silver for the coin had been mined in Peru and taken by British Admiral George Anson from the Spanish Galleon, Nuestra Señora de Covadonga, near the Philippine Islands.