A mixed group, comprising a Victorian silver plated (EPNS) soup tureen, Birmingham 1856 by Elkington & Co

Of compressed oval form upon an oval foot, with acanthus capped twin scroll handles. The removable domed lid surmounted by a detachable cast pomegranate finial with stalk and leaf. Engraved to side and lid with a crest of a bear’s head couped muzzled above the motto Spe Expecto. Together with an early Victorian EPNS sauce tureen, the lid and base engraved with mirrored L’s below a Baron’s coronet, and a George IV Old Sheffield Plate bread basket, of rectangular form with gadrooned and rosette edge and twin handles, the centre engraved with a crest of a weasel rampant. (3)

Soup tureen length – 35cm/ 13.75 inches

The soup tureen crest is for Forbes, possibly for Walter Forbes, 18th Lord Forbes (1798-1868) of Forbes Castle in Alford, Aberdeenshire.