Thanks Elspeth for the link.
Lots of silver spoons and christening gifts with lots of furniture but no jewels. :(
I wonder at Queen Mary's habit of giving her quite young grandsons, antique sliver spoons and serving dishes. A little boy is not going to be interested in that and as the second son of the Duke, I can hardly imagine anyone would have expected him to be able to use half the things later anyway.
Some antique hunter is going to be very happy. BTW I noticed that the British auctions don't distinguish between sterling silver and silverplate. If all of this silver is sterling, its severely underpriced.
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