Three early Georgian sterling silver punch ladles, one John Harvey I, London, 1740, the marks to the other two respectively illegible or lost to rubbing. The Harvey ladle with a single-lipped bowl, crimped with a barbed rim, with an elegant scrolling shaft and turned ebonised wood handle, the other two ladles similar to each other, each with a plain bowl and ebonised wood handle, one twist-turned, Harvey ladle 35 cm long, the others similar and slightly longer respectively. Provenance: The John Harvey ladle: The Mr. D. W. Todd Collection, Parkside Antiques, September 1st 1993,