Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first two with round handle and lacquered wood shaft, George V silver handles, with worn maker's marks, London (1920 & 1923), without monograms; the third a Derby handled form featuring chased dragon and bamboo decoration, late 19th century Chinese export mark, possibly Po Cheng, Hong Kong, alongside mark of Grey & Co., London, over a bamboo shaft (33 1/2 in.), the fourth also with derby handle marked "STERLING" and bright cut engraved decoration, over a bamboo shaft (34 in.).
From the Wood Family’s Historic Mulberry Hill Home, Edenton, North Carolina Scattered denting to the silver handles, more prominently on the 1923 hallmarked form; surface wear to the shafts; the 1920 hallmarked form missing ferrule tip.