Strauss & co - 26 September 2011, Cape Town

39 55 An assembled set of Kings pattern flatware, Mappin & Webb, Sheffield, 1904-1908 comprising: 8 table forks, 8 table spoons, 8 dessert forks, 8 dessert spoons, 8 teaspoons, a soup ladle and a sauce ladle, 3130g; 6 fruit forks and 4 fruit knives, maker’s mark WS, Sheffield, 1835; and 8 table knives and 8 dessert knives, London, 2005, in an associated canteen (68) R18 000 – 24 000 56 A cased set of four George V silver and tortoiseshell place card holders, William Comyns & Sons, Birmingham, 1913 circular, inlaid with a fleur-de-lis enclosed by berry and leaf borders, on a circular foot, 4,5cm high (4) R4 000 – 6 000 57 A modern silver rose bowl, The ‘World Wildlife Fund’ No. 144 of a limited edition of 2000, Herbert & Lawrence Parsons, for Messrs Tessiers, London, 1976 decorated in relief with five panels of threatened species: tiger, arabian oryx, polar bear, cheetah and Indian rhinoceros, after various artists, raised on a stepped circular foot, 1285g, 26cm diameter R7 000 – 10 000 56 55 part lot 57