800/- silver and colourless cut glass; total weight: approx. 1191 g; decanter with quatrefoil, pear-shaped body, vertically ornamentally cut, on a square base with angular handle, spout, hinged lid with mouth and spherical thumbpiece in silver; lid engraved “H.Y.C. Alster 25.7.1909”; on the side of the lid stamped with crescent and crown, a partially struck unidentified maker’s mark, model number and fineness mark; solder residues on the centre of the lid, isolated enclosed foreign inclusions in the glass, chip in the glass measuring approx. 1 cm, heavy oxidation traces, wear to the base; height: approx. 31 cm.

800/- silver; total weight: approx. 5 kg; 159-piece group with various monograms (“G”, “JR”, “JG”, “JH”, “FR”, “JS”) to the ends of the handles, comprising: 15 table knives (L: approx. 25.5 cm), 15 menu knives (L: approx. 21.4 cm), compote spoons (L: approx. 8.8 cm), bouillon spoons (L: approx. 13.5 cm), menu spoons (L: approx. 18.5 cm), cake server (L: approx. 21.8 cm), pair of sugar tongs (L: approx. 10.6 cm), pair of serving forks (L: approx. 19 cm), pastry server (L: approx. 17 cm), cake knife (L: approx. 27.3 cm), 3 ladles (L: approx. 21.4 cm), large serving spoon (L: approx. 27.8 cm), 3 ladles (L: approx. 18.5 cm), 6 ice-cream spoons (L: approx. 13.3 cm), 10 coffee spoons (L: approx. 13.7 cm), 17 teaspoons (L: approx. 12.4 cm), 16 cake forks (L: approx. 14.5 cm), 15 soup cup spoons (L: approx. 15.4 cm), 6 side knives (L: approx. 17.5 cm), 4 fish knives (L: approx. 22 cm), 4 fish forks (L: approx. 18 cm), 18 table forks (L: approx. 21.4 cm), 16 table spoons (L: approx. 21.7 cm); some pieces with engraved inscriptions to the reverse; all pieces stamped to the reverse with crescent and crown, maker’s marks of Wilkens & Söhne or BSF, fineness marks and some with retailer’s marks, incl. Watty; age-related signs of wear, minor deformations and oxidation residues; five knives require re-cementing.