24-PIECE GEORGE V SILVER FISH SET,Atkin Brothers, Sheffield, 1928. Including eleven fish knives and 13 forks. In a presentation case with inscribed plaque. Together with a 24-piece Victorian mother-of-pearl handled silver plated dessert service, including twelve knives and forks; in a presentation case - 30 oz., 2 dwt., weighable silver. Estimate $600-800
PROVENANCE: Bonhams, The Old Rectory, Great Bealings, Suffolk, July 2006. The sale of the contents of John Julian Ganzoni, the late Lord Belstead, Leader of the House of Lords under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Northern Ireland Minister under Prime Minister John Major
One knife with mother-of-pearl handle has a crack at the top near the bolster. The marks on the fish set are crisp and legible. One fork has bent tines, one knife has teeny nicks to one edge.
