An Assorted Group of Nine English Silver Flatware Articles

Various Makers, Various Dates

comprising a large serving spoon, engraved with armorial crest in the form of a reindeer head, by Patrick Moore, Dublin, 1828, marked; a pair of tablespoons, engraved with monogram, "GW", by Thomas Wallis II, London, 1789, marked; a tablespoon by William Traies, London, 1826, marked; a tablespoon by Morris and Michael Emanuel, London, 1827, marked; a sauce ladle by William Eley and William Fearn, London, 1804, marked; a mustard spoon, engraved with monogram, "T*S/ S", maker's mark rubbed, London, 1821, marked; a pair of mustard spoons with shell ends to handles, by maker "JM", Edinburgh, 1818, marked; together with two mustard spoons, likely silver-plated, one marked.

Length 12 1/4 inches (largest), Total weight: 12.605 oz. t.

Property from the Estate of Helen Elliot Scott (1928-2024)

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Note:

Born in Boston in 1928, Helen (Gay) Scott, nee Elliot, was a pianist, piano teacher, mother of three and grandmother of seven. She studied piano at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, 1969-1973, while living in London where her husband was special assistant to Walter Annenberg, the American ambassador to the Court of St. James. Married for 42 years to Robert Montgomery Scott (1929-2005), President and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1982-1996, Helen served on the board of the Curtis Institute of Music, taught piano at the Settlement Music School, and privately into her nineties. She was an alumna of the Shady Hill School, the Foxcroft School and Radcliffe College.