Rare Travelling Fork and Three Knife Set
                                A Rare Travelling Fork and Three Knife Set 
Two knives and fork handles inlaid with silver and ‘red’ sealing wax decoration with a ‘Tulip’ design to each, one single knife with ‘piqué’ decoration to the top
Cutlers mark to three blades: a ‘crowned’ M
Ivory, silver, gilt, sealing wax, leather traveling case
England
17th Century
SIZE: knives: 16.8cm long - 6⁵⁄₈ ins long (max) fork: 16.5cm long - 6½ ins long
                                Two knives and fork handles inlaid with silver and ‘red’ sealing wax decoration with a ‘Tulip’ design to each, one single knife with ‘piqué’ decoration to the top
Cutlers mark to three blades: a ‘crowned’ M
Ivory, silver, gilt, sealing wax, leather traveling case
England
17th Century
SIZE: knives: 16.8cm long - 6⁵⁄₈ ins long (max) fork: 16.5cm long - 6½ ins long
                                    A Rare Travelling Fork and Three Knife Set 
Two knives and fork handles inlaid with silver and ‘red’ sealing wax decoration with a ‘Tulip’ design to each, one single knife with ‘piqué’ decoration to the top
Cutlers mark to three blades: a ‘crowned’ M
Ivory, silver, gilt, sealing wax, leather traveling case
England
17th Century
SIZE: knives: 16.8cm long - 6⁵⁄₈ ins long (max) fork: 16.5cm long - 6½ ins long
 
                                
                                Two knives and fork handles inlaid with silver and ‘red’ sealing wax decoration with a ‘Tulip’ design to each, one single knife with ‘piqué’ decoration to the top
Cutlers mark to three blades: a ‘crowned’ M
Ivory, silver, gilt, sealing wax, leather traveling case
England
17th Century
SIZE: knives: 16.8cm long - 6⁵⁄₈ ins long (max) fork: 16.5cm long - 6½ ins long
                                    Ex Private English collection 
SEE: for a similar set, Ashmolean Musuem, Oxford, inv. no. 1949 / 260 (three knives and one fork in a travelling sheath / case
                SEE: for a similar set, Ashmolean Musuem, Oxford, inv. no. 1949 / 260 (three knives and one fork in a travelling sheath / case
Rare Travelling Fork and Three Knife Set
 
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