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Pair of silver spoons engraved 'B.H.' Paired with [T0001/071]

Pair of silver spoons engraved at tip. Paired with [T0001.073]. DR with crown. Makers Mark reads M M M.

Part of Gow Salt Cellars set [T.0005.008] Sotheby's p 10

Entree dishes with detachable handles for lids c.1840, foliate borders.

A Pair of two-light Candelabra [early C19th taste] and one identical four-light Candelabra, scroll, shell and foliate bases. The candle fittings detatch from the bases. All with some damage. Esp to light attachments.

In fitted case with silver-mounted case with silver mounted presentation inscription: 'Presented by E.C. Burton & E.P. Colquhoun 1844'. Gilding worn. See also stand [T.0001.059]

One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Memories 1920-1924
It was not until 1959 (as a senior OW) that I ever set foot in this ‘terra incognita’- reputed in our day to be a vast subterranean vault.
Under Mr. Flynn, College Butler (toothless and be-wigged) food in Hall, tho’ plain and unexciting, was plentiful-a welcome contrast to RR, with its single ‘barge’ at breakfast and tea and its dismal menu of lentil, stock-fish or rock-buns in Hall.
From 1922 Mr. Flynn was succeeded as Supervisor by the up-to-date and fully trained Miss Ridge. (To our joy the kindly Miss Flynn was retained in charge of “Flinnery”, ie the service-pantry). Under her, food soon became varied, imaginative and (despite the inevitable grumbles of fastidious T.BB) definitively good.
Pancakes had previously appeared on Shrove Tuesday, but now we had on occasions at mid-day Hall salmon, rabbit (dubbed ‘poor Puss’ by TBB), pickles with cold meat and even (in a heat wave) lemonade and strawberries. For evening Hall (tea) the great standby was ‘choufleur-au-gratin’, which could be found ready at any time by late-returning Watermen.'

The Peter Holmes Trophy. Not loaded. No cover. On the base: WRSC [Westminster School Rowing Club]. NB differs from description provided in Sotheby's valuation, see p. 6