Details
The handles chased as stylized branches and applied with monogram S, comprising:
Twenty-three tablespoons
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twenty-one coffee spoons
Eight demitasse spoons
Twenty-four dinner forks
Twenty-four luncheon forks
Twenty-four fish forks
Forty-six oyster forks
Thirty dinner knives
Forty-seven luncheon knives, in two sizes
Twenty-four fish knives
Five fruit knives
A master butter knife
A mustard pot and spoon with blue glass liner
Two casters
Four salt cellars with blue glass liners
An eagle form menu holder;
Together with a pastry server in a different pattern, mark of Omar Ramsden, London, 1931
388 oz. 2 dwt. (12,070 gr.) weighable silver
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Lot Essay

Omar Ramsden (1873 - 1939) was born and trained in Sheffield, the heart of the silver and flatware trade for the north of England. He was born into a family with ties to the silver trade, and as early as 1887 was working as an apprentice to a firm of silversmiths there. While the training that he received during that apprenticeship no doubt helped him to be a skillful businessman, it was his evening classes at the Sheffield School of Art which first gave him the taste for design. It was also there that he met Alywn Carr (1872 - 1940) who would become his friend, as well as business partner from 1898 to 1919. The combination of his knowledge of manufacturing techniques and both his and Carr's innovative and timeless designs allowed Ramsden to turn his workshop St. Dunstan's in Fulham, West London, into a very successful business.
An extensive collection of works by Ramsden, both as a solo designer and with Carr, were sold from the David and Vivian Campbell Collection, Christie's, London, 20 April 2005. A flatware service in an identical pattern also applied with monogram S was sold at Christie's, London, 12 June 2006, lot 45.

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