Hanoverian Sterling Silver Flatware Set, Walker & Hall, 1918
A Hanoverian pattern sterling silver flatware service for eight, Walker & Hall, Sheffield, 1918, comprising eight each dinner forks, entree forks, table spoons, dessert spoons, dinner knives and entree knives with stainless steel blades, teaspoons and two ladles, each spoon with a rat tail, 2,254 gms weighable silver
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- Rat Tail - A spoon with a flattened handle, tapering from the narrow section at the bowl, and wider as the top of the handle, that when viewed from above is of a similiar shape to a rat's tail. Also known as the Hanoverian pattern, as its manufacture spanned the reigns of George I, II and III (part) of the House of Hanover dynasty. The rat tail pattern was the forerunner to the Old English pattern.
- Marrow Spoon - A spoon with a long handle and a narrow scoop shaped bowl, used to scoop and eat marrow from the hollow centre of roasted bones. Some marrow scoops are double ended with a different shaped bowl at each end.
- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Flatware - An alternative name for items of cutlery, principally knives, forks and spoons, now generally used to describe sets of these implements. Nowadays it is mostly used when describing cutlery made of silver and silver plate.
It is less frequently used to describe all "flat' items of tableware, so that as well as cutlery the definition includes plates.
This item has been included into following indexes:
- silver cutlery / flatware, patterns
- silver cutlery / flatware, settings - unboxed 1,448
- Walker & Hall (England) - silver, maker or retailer 323
