A French silver and silver-gilt canteen for twelve, maker's mark HS with a sun above and star below, for Henri Soufflot, Paris, also with later import marks for London 1942, importer's mark of The London Assay Office, the handles with foliate decoration, the reverse of the terminals with a monogram, comprising: thirty table forks, eighteen table knives, fifteen tablespoons, twelve fish knives and forks, and a pair of fish servers, with mother-of-pearl handles, twelve ice cream spoons, twelve coffee spoons, an ice cream spade, a pair of grape scissors, two pairs of sugar tongs, two sifting spoons, a slice, a fruit serving spoon, twelve silver-gilt dessert forks, knives and twelve dessert spoons, two serving spoons, an asparagus server, a soup ladle, a pair of basting spoons, two serving forks, a pair of sauce ladles, three pickle forks, a pair of salad servers, a butter knife, a butter spade and a sugar spoon, in a five drawer wooden cabinet with a hinged cover, the drawers with a brass plaque numbered and with list of the pieces, approx. weighable 280oz.