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Lot 359
Sale 5488 - The Collector's Sale
Aug 9, 2017
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$160
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Set of six Louis XVI mother of pearl-handled silver knives Bearing the charge marks for Riom, and Aix or Lyon, France, 1775-1781
accompanied by a display box with the label inscribed, "Six of the Eighteen Knives presented to Arthur Lee, Commissioner to France 1777 by Louis XVI King of France/Loaned by Mrs. Charles Fauntleroy Harrison (Mary Arthur Fendall)" and a handwritten note describing family provenance.
L: 7 3/4 in.