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A HUNGARIAN SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE
800 standard, unidentified maker's mark of an ear of wheat, 1940s
In a modern pattern with spreading flat terminals to chamfered shafts, the bowls of the spoons pointed, generally a service for twelve, eighty-four pieces comprising twelve each of entrée knives and forks, table knives and forks (but lacking one fork), and coffee spoons (with one additional), eight table (or large dessert) spoons, ten tea spoons, together with six serving pieces comprising a soup ladle, a serving spoon, two meat forks, and pair of salad servers, the terminals engraved with a cipher of initials NS, with an associated earlier Austro-Hungarian set of sugar tongs
3,074g in total (not including the knives with steel blades)
800 standard, unidentified maker's mark of an ear of wheat, 1940s
In a modern pattern with spreading flat terminals to chamfered shafts, the bowls of the spoons pointed, generally a service for twelve, eighty-four pieces comprising twelve each of entrée knives and forks, table knives and forks (but lacking one fork), and coffee spoons (with one additional), eight table (or large dessert) spoons, ten tea spoons, together with six serving pieces comprising a soup ladle, a serving spoon, two meat forks, and pair of salad servers, the terminals engraved with a cipher of initials NS, with an associated earlier Austro-Hungarian set of sugar tongs
3,074g in total (not including the knives with steel blades)
Estimate $4,600 - $5,500
Decorative Arts
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8826
6:00pm - 16 November 2026
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Fri 13 - Sun 15 November, 11am - 5pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au
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