An Edwardian sterling silver four-piece tea and coffee service, Birmingham 1905 by Mappin and Webb

Comprising a teapot, coffee pot, milk juga and twin handled sugar bowl. Each of rounded form raised on four feet with shell junction, the bodied with embossed decoration of spiral fluting and trailing floral scrolls. The pots with curved spouts opposite ebonised handles pinned to sockets, the domed hinge lids surmounted by a detachable ebonised knop finials. Each fully and part-marked, the finial retaining wing buts with lion passant only. (4)

Coffee pot height – 22.5 cm / 8.75 inches

Teapot length – 26 cm / 10.25 inches

Weight – 1748 grams / 56.2 ozt