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A LOUIS XV SILVER-GILT DESSERT-SERVICE
MARK OF NICOLAS-MARTIN LANGLOIS PARIS, 1775 AND 1777, THE KNIVES PARIS, 1775 AND 1777, MAKER'S MARK JEC, SOME MARKS INDISTINCT
A LOUIS XV SILVER-GILT DESSERT-SERVICE MARK OF NICOLAS-MARTIN LANGLOIS PARIS, 1775 AND 1777, THE KNIVES PARIS, 1775 AND 1777, MAKER'S MARK JEC, SOME MARKS INDISTINCT Each with reeded handle and husk and shell terminal, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, comprising: Twenty-four dessert-spoons Twenty-four dessert-forks Twenty-four fruit-knives Together with: Two cast foliage and berry sifting-spoons, Paris, 1772 and 1774, maker's mark indistinct And a pair of sugar-tongs with engraved foliage and a crest, Paris, 1777, maker's mark indistinct 100 oz. (3,109 gr.) weighable silver The arms are those of Cuthbert impaling Smith. (75)