A Victorian sterling silver three-piece bachelor tea service, Sheffield 1890 by Albert Henry Thompson

A Victorian sterling silver three-piece bachelor tea service, Sheffield 1890 by Albert Henry Thompson

Comprising a teapot, a milk jug, a twin handled sugar bowl. Each of oval form with embossed fluted decoration below engraved foliate scrolls with rosettes. The teapot with a curved spout opposite a fibre C scroll handle, the domed hinged lid surmounted by a detachable ebonised finial. Each engraved with a crest of out of a ducal coronet and unicorns head. Each fully marked. (3)

Teapot length – 23 cm / 9.05 inches

Weight – 665 grams / 21.38 ozt

The crest is for Bromewich, Carleton, Carington, Charlton, Cusac-Smith, Deeves, D’Eureux, Gale, How, Hughes, Hulleys, Lloyd, Marden, Perkins, Preston, Richardson, Smith, Tregore, Wentworth, and Younge.