Vintage English Silver Plated Cased 141 Piece 12 Setting Canteen Cutlery 20th C

We are one of the UK's premier furniture dealers and have been trading in London for four decades. We specialise in English and Continental furniture, silver, porcelain, and decorative items both antique and contemporary.

We exhibit our collection in 25,000 square feet of elegant showrooms in our large warehouse very close to the centre of London. Vintage English Silver Plated Cased 141 Piece 12 Setting Canteen Cutlery 20th C. An elegant Vintage English Sheffield silverplated twelve place setting 138 piece canteen of cutlery marked Sheffield EPNS, late 20th Century in date. This impressive set includes a beautiful blond oak case with brown felt lining, the complete of set of cutlery is in the stunning "Kings" pattern.

12 Table knives 12 Table forks 12 Starter knives 12 starter forks 12 Soup spoons 12 Dessert spoons 12 Fish knives 12 Fish forks 12 Soup spoons 12 Teaspoons 12 Coffee spoons 4 Serving spoons 1 Steel sharpener 1 Server fork 1 Server knife 1 Cheese Knife 1 Soup ladle. In excellent condition with no dings, dents or signs of repair. Please see photos for confirmation. Height 20 x Width 45 x Depth 36. Height 8 inches x Width 1 foot, 6 inches x Depth 1 foot, 2 inches. Modern electroplating was invented by Italian chemist Luigi V. Brugnatelli used his colleague Alessandro Volta's invention of five years earlier, the voltaic pile, to facilitate the first electro-deposition. Unfortunately, Brugnatelli's inventions were repressed by the French Academy of Sciences and did not become used in general industry for the following thirty years. Silver plate or electroplate is formed when a thin layer of pure or sterling silver is deposited electrolytically on the surface of a base metal. By 1839, scientists in Britain and Russia had independently devised metal deposition processes similar to Brugnatelli's for the copper electroplating of printing press plates. Soon after, John Wright of Birmingham, England, discovered that potassium cyanide was a suitable electrolyte for gold and silver electroplating. Wright's associates, George Elkington and Henry Elkington were awarded the first patents for electroplating in 1840. These two then founded the electroplating industry in Birmingham (England) from where it spread around the world. Take a tour of our London showrooms.

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