60 piece Fiddle Canteen by Mary Chawner

60 piece Fiddle Pattern Canteen, London 1834-40 by Mary Chawner

The Service

We are pleased to be offering the opportunity to buy a top quality, silver 12 place settings canteen in Fiddle Pattern with all the spoons and forks made by the same maker and every item being in excellent polished condition with no engravings.

The service provides for the five standard pieces per 12 place settings.

All the spoons and forks were hand wrought in London and made by the premier flatware specialist Mary Chawner of Chawner & Company between 1834 and 1840. The soup spoons are in the standard oval bowled form of the 19^th century where soup was supped from the side of the bowl – these table spoons are also useful for serving purposes. The teaspoons are 5.75” long and can also have a dual purpose for use with certain desserts (e.g. mousse and creme brulee).

The service could be enhanced by adding serving pieces that we have in stock, also by Chawner & Company – details available on request. We can also supply silver handled knives if required too.

Fiddle Pattern

Fiddle Pattern was the dominant flatware pattern of 19th Century Britain. It was by far the most popular pattern from 1810 until 1880. Production was largely discontinued in 1914, as the original dies for hand wrought fiddle pattern were destroyed during the First World War. As the pattern has rarely been made since, the design is distinctively 19th Century and is extremely popular today for people wishing to have antique cutlery.

 The Maker

All the spoons and forks were hand wrought in London during the 1830’s by the most important company of silver flatware makers of the period – Chawner & Company – under the leadership of Mary Chawner (working period 1834 to 1840). All pieces bear her “MC” makers mark.  Chawner & Company was founded by Mary’s husband, William, in 1815 and continued trading as the largest specialist silver flatware workshop until the 1880’s.

Components

This 60-piece service consists of the following:

Total weight of silver 3100 grams (100 troy ounces).

Optional Extras

We have a large selection of fiddle pattern serving items by Chawner & company. These include:  soup ladle, sauce ladles, 12” basting spoons, serving fork, fish slice, butter knife, runcible spoon, sugar tongs, sugar shovel, mustard spoon, salt spoons etc. We could also add a set of egg spoons that can double up as coffee spoons.

Further details can be provided on request.

Condition

Excellent polished condition with no engravings throughout.

Presentation

This canteen is offered in new anti-tarnish cutlery rolls. These navy blue rolls have individual pockets and hold 12 items each.

As with all the canteens available from our web-site, we are happy to send a sample place setting for approval, on receipt of a fully refundable surety payment, prior to purchasing this canteen.