Bidspirit auction | A Silver Engraved and Pierced

A Silver Engraved and Pierced Victorian Bread Fork, Sheffield 1879 - A Victorian Silver bread fork featuring an elaborately hand-engraved three-pronged head with foliate and floral motifs. The head is decorated with intricate pierced openwork and is joined to a spiralled silver shaft and a ribbed silver ferrule. The handle is composed of carved off-white Bone, worked with a fluted and gadrooned pattern. The silver ferrule bears a stamped maker's mark comprising the letters HA, alongside Sheffield assay marks including a crown, a walking lion, and a lowercase Gothic date letter m for 1879.