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Comprising twelve dessert spoons, twelve dessert forks, and twelve dessert knives, the handles cast and chased with shells, engraved with coat-of-arms of Count Apraxine, marked with 'N&P MAG.ANG' on knives, further marked with St Petersburg assay marks throughout; in a fitted velvet-lined wooden case with one lift-out tray
The knife, 834 in. (22 cm.) long, and smaller
72.9 oz. (2,267 gr.)
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The present flatware service is marked ‘N&P Mag.Ang.’ for ‘Nicholls & Plinсke Magasin Anglais’ – the fashionable English Store in St Petersburg, owned by two English merchants Charles Nicholls and William Plincke. According to the court chamberlain Dolgoruky the shop ‘enjoyed universal trust’ (A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 145).

The store was founded in 1789 as Hoy's English Shop (Hoy Bellis and Co.) and taken over in the early 1800s by Charles Nicholls and William Plincke. The firm continued to operate until the 1880s, supplying the Imperial court with silver of highest quality.

The arms on the present lot are those of the Apraxine family.

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