13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
King’s pattern, most engraved with the Cunliffe and Lister crests on one side and a baron’s coronet on the other, with differing stainless steel or steel blades comprising:
13 table-knives, with later stainless steel blades
13 cheese-knives, with later stainless steel blades, two unengraved and by Henry Atkin, Sheffield, 1936
5 carving-knives, with steel blades
3 carving forks, with steel attachments (34)
The crests are those of Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham (1857-1917).
Sold for £550
Estimated at £300 - £500
Each piece is marked as expected. There is some wear to the date letters on some of the cheese-knives. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. The wear is noticeable as a softening to the engraving. This is more obvious on some pieces than on others. There is some corrosion and marking to the steel attachments and some scratching to the stainless steel blades. Two cheese-knives are unengraved. The blades differ on many of the pieces.
13 table-knives, five with curving blades and eight with straight blades, by Holland, Aldwinckle and Slater, London, 1911, the blades by Pinder Brothers, by Holland, Aldwinckle and Slater, London, 1911
13 cheese-knives, six with curving blades and seven with straight blades, eleven by Holland, Aldwinckle and Slater, London, 1911, one straight blade by James Ogden, the rest by Pinder Brothers, the two unengraved examples by Atkin Brothers, Sheffield, 1936
5 carving-knives, with steel blades, by Holland, Aldwinckle and Slater, London, 1911, the blades by F. B. Thomas, New Bond Street
3 carving forks, with steel attachments, by Holland, Aldwinckle and Slater, London, 1911
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Auction: The Swinton Sale, 13th Sep, 2024
THE SELECTED CONTENTS OF DYKES HILL HOUSE, MASHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE, FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF THE 2nd EARL AND COUNTESS OF SWINTON AND SOLD ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE 4th EARL AND FAMILY AND THE TRUSTEES OF THE LORD SWINTON WILL TRUST
The Swinton Sale, will include a selection of fine English and Continental Furniture, Paintings, Sculpture, Chinese Works of Art, Silver, Meissen, Sèvres, Books and Objets d’Art from one of Yorkshire’s most important landed estates.
The Swinton Estate which spans approximately 20,000 acres encompasses some of the most beautiful landscape in North Yorkshire and has been in the ownership of the Cunliffe-Lister family since the 1880s. Dykes Hill House, close to Swinton Park, became the family seat and home to the 2nd Earl and Lady Masham following a life changing injury when she was thrown from her horse shortly before their wedding in 1959, causing her to be paralysed from the waist down.
The 2nd Earl died in 2006 and his widow Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton, DL, continued to lead a full life as a British crossbench member of the House of Lords. Amongst her many achievements, she was a former Paralympic athlete and was also the founder and lifelong President of the Spinal Injuries Association. She died on 12th March 2023.
Whilst a number of the chattels have been retained by the family, the remaining contents of Dykes Hill House provide a rare glimpse of what epitomises the quintessential taste of the English aristocracy.
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