£1,800
A heavy early 19th century hallmarked silver three-piece tea service: teapot, large two-handled sugar bowl with gilded interior and a milk jug also with gilded interior, each piece with cast borders of shell style and C-scrolls and with the main squat spherical body decorated repoussé style with further flowerheads, tendrils and other similar decorative ornament, each with cartouche engraved with 'R', each raised with lower milled-style base, maker's mark RK, assayed Edinburgh 1824 (total combined weight approx. 1,670g)
Condition Report: The cream/milk jug appears in good order although the gilding is a little tarnished inside, the larger two-handled sugar has some tarnish inside also minor dings around the inner edge, pin head sized (4 or 5), the large teapot appears stained inside, spout OK, the bone/ivory insulators have small hairlines but no losses.
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