A set of four folding steel blades and tines, Saxony, 18th century

Property of a descendant of William Beckford & The Dukes of Hamilton
A set of four folding steel blades and tines, Saxony, 18th century

with stained green bone handles, applied with probably silver raspberries, faces and scrolling foliage
size of the largest 10cm., 4in. long

Condition Report:
Some losses and cracks to smaller bone handles, all function, the steel backs etched with a floral pattern

Provenance:
Possibly William, 11th Duke of Hamilton (1811-1863);
By descent to his granddaughter, Lady Mary Louise (1884-1957), only child and principal heir of William Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, who married in 1906 James Graham (1878-1954), Marquis of Graham who in 1925 succeeded his father as 6th Duke of Montrose;
Thence by descent.