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the first with oval bowl 7.5cm wide including the pouring lip, with pressed piecrust rim, the bowl set with a George II sixpence (1732) the flat strip mount decorated with bright cut engraving flaring to a short tubular socket holding the twisted baleen handle topped with a simple pointed silver terminal, overall length 37cm; the second with oval bowl 8cm wide including the pouring lip, the rim with indecipherable lettering indicating construction by hammering out a silver coin, the bowl set with a George II sixpence (1757), the simple conical tubular socket holding the twisted baleen handle topped with a plain silver terminal, overall length 32cm, monogrammed; the third with circular bowl 6cm diameter and 2.5cm deep decorated with repoussé vine leaves, tendrils and grapes around a monogrammed cartouche, the rim with indecipherable lettering indicating construction by hammering out a silver coin, the base of the bowl set with a gilded George II sixpence (1758), the flat strip mount flaring to a short tubular socket holding the twisted baleen handle topped with a simple pointed silver terminal, overall length 37cm (3)

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