Silver (950) tableware set (124 pieces).

Silver (950) tableware set (124 pieces). PARIS, Charles CORDONNIER - Jean GRANDVIGNE and PARISOT (knives), after 1863. (Minerve). Model featuring a fluted design and a spatula with scalloped edges, engraved with a coat of arms surmounted by a marquis’s crown and topped by a griffin (crest), with the motto ONCQUE NE FAILLI [Never fails]: Or, a lion sable[...] which are the arms of the de CHAMBORANT family. The set includes: - twelve dinner knives and six dinner forks - thirteen dessert knives - twelve tea/coffee spoons - one sprinkling spoon and one large cream spoon - eighteen table knives, eighteen cheese knives, and eighteen fruit knives (silver blades marked TOURON: PARIS, by various silversmiths including PARISOT, after 1838 (Minerve). Silver-lined handles. Some of the table knife blades are marked TOURON PARISOT S[uccess]or / FOUR[niss]EUR DE S.M. L'EMPEREUR / RUE RICHELIEU 101. PARIS. Net weight (silver pieces): 4,282.9 g. Gross weight (knives): 3,052 g. Appraiser: Sophie Vergne