An Edwardian silver egg cruet for four, a sugar basket and a stemmed bowl; the egg cruet by Norton & White, Birmingham 1904, tray and stemmed egg cups all with petal rims, dangling with associated spoons, on four ball feet, 22.0 cm high; the twin-handled sugar basket on pedestal, of navette form with wyvern fluted sides, by Thomas Bradbury & Sons Ltd, London 1906; and a silver stemmed bowl with piecrust rim by Arthur & John Zimmerman, engraved with the inscription "P.B.T - S.M.H. 1908-33"; Total weight of items 28.79 ozt. (3) one egg cup stem has been pushed in, cruet tray holder stem has been damaged.

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