A Victorian provincial silver coffee set. John Walton, Newcastle, 1857 and 1858. The set comprising: a coffee pot, sugar and milk jug, all richly repousse decorated with scrolls, flowers and foliage and designed with vacant scroll-framed cartouches to bodies, the baluster-shaped bodies raised on four bracket feet and the sugar and jug with gilded interiors, the coffee pot with ivory insulators to foliate capped handle and a hinged cover with elaborate bud finial, coffee pot 28.5cm high, total weight approx. 48.2ozt (3) Ivory submission reference: E16UFQYL

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