*** | Silver Trompe L'Oeuil swing handled basket, Makers mark for Alexander Stromov, 1883, St Petersburg simulated basket weave with similarly decorated swing handle with gilt interior, the base engraved with interlaced monogram Cs. Length 22 cm | *** | |
*** | Silver-gilt swing handled basket, Makers mark for Brothers Gratchev under Imperial Warrant, 1896-1908 with acanthus leaf and beading to rim of basket, gilt interior, laurel and berry banding to foot. Width 31 cm, weight 31ozs | *** | |
*** | Old Sheffield plate bread basket, of rectangular form with gadroon and shell border and a bold leaf and shell motif either end, with a swing handle, on four ball feet, the base engraved on an inset panel with initials within a shell and scroll motif,… | *** | |
*** | Silver swing handled basket, Makers mark Si in Cyrillic, Moscow, 1882 with a shallow oval bowl, engraved with geometric banding, on raised foot, plain swing handle. Width 25 cm. together with a silver fish server, bearing marks for Moscow 1889 | *** | |
*** | James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1899 swing handled silver fruit basket of quatrefoil form, the sides pierced and the well decorated with heart shaped cartouches, a floral scroll border and matching handle, all on an open work skirted foot, weight 715 grams,… | *** | |
*** | Basket, having plain well with foliate scroll work pierced sides and everted rim and on reeded foot ring, being decorated with trellis work and five cartouches, one initialled and two vacant, one bearing traces of early 19th century Sheffield hallmarks,… | *** | |