A set of knives with ebony handles. It includes: - Eight fruit knives, the blade in silver 950 thousandths, the handle applied with a virgin escutcheon - Seven with the hallmark 2e coq de Paris, one with the hallmark minerve- M.O: IGI - Gross weight: 212 g ; - Six fruit knives, blades in 950 thousandths silver, handles decorated with palmettes - Minerva hallmark - Gross weight: 181 g ; Also included: - Six fruit knives, stainless steel blade, palmette-decorated rings; - Twelve knives, stainless-steel blades (five marked PUIFORCAT), ebony handles with palmette-decorated rings.

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