Beschreibung:

A GERMAN SILVER AND SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY HANOVER, CIRCA 1725 Hanoverian ribbed pattern, each engraved either with Royal crest within the Garter motto and with Royal crown above or the Royal arms with a label for difference with the Garter motto and with Royal Duke's coronet above, marked with later French control mark, several forks stamped on stem with number and/or 'DD', comprising: Twenty-one silver table-forks Forty-three silver table-spoons Twenty-seven silver-gilt table forks A large silver serving-spoon Twenty-one table knives, with filled pistol handles Twenty-seven silver-gilt table knives, with filled pistol handles, the blades stamped with a cutler's mark or 'Rogerson' together with a later matching silver table-spoon and table fork, unmarked 257 oz. 6 dwt. (8,003 gr.) The Royal crest and the Royal arms beneath the Royal crown are for King George I (1714-1729). The Royal arms beneath a Royal duke's coronet is for Prince Ernst August of Hanover and Great Britain, Duke of York and Albany (1674-1728), Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, younger brother of King George I. Provenance Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover and King George I (1660-1727) of Great Britain and Ireland or Prince Ernst August of Hanover and Great Britain, Duke of York and Albany (1674-1728), Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, by descent in the Royal family of Great Britain and Hanover until the death of King William IV in 1837, when the two kingdoms separated under two monarchs. Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), fifth son of King George III of Great Britain and brother of King William IV, by descent to his son George V of Hanover, 2nd Duke of Cumberland (1819–1878) and King of Hanover until 1866, by descent to his son Ernest Augustus II, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland (1845–1923), Glückselig und Sohn in 1924, Crichton Brothers of London, Rothschild collection.