RARE LEUCHARS PICCADILLY LONDON STERLING TRAVEL CUTLERY SET WITH EARLS CORONET

BOXED TRAVEL FLATWARE SET, WITH AN EARLS CORONET TO THE HANDLES.  QW HAVW NOT RESEARCHED WHAT EARL THESE BELONGED TO.

FOUND IN THE ORIGINAL BOX.

3 PIECE SET.

FOLDING FORK, SPOON. KIIFE WITH CORKSCREW.

THE SPOON AND FORK ARE SILVER GILT AND HALLMARKED.

THE KNIFE BLADE AND CORKSCREW ARE GILT OVER STEEL.

KNIFE BLADE MARKED" LEUCHARS PICCADILLY.

THE BOX IS NOT IN THE BEST CONDITION AND IS MARKED LEUCHARS MAKER 38 PICCADILLY.

SOME STRESS FRACTURES TO THE BOVINE BONE HANDLES, GILT LOSS TO KNIFE BLADE.

ABOUT 7 1/2" OPEN.  CLOSED ABOUT 4".

Leuchars was a renowned maker of dressing cases established in 1794 by James Leuchars in Piccadilly, London.

James died in 1822 and the business was taken over by his widow Lucy under the name L. Leuchars and they were awarded the Royal Warrant for the supply of dressing cases in 1837, the year Queen Victoria came to the throne.

The firm expanded in 1841 taking over premises next door in Piccadilly and the name changed to Lucy Leuchars & Son, the son being William. William took over the business in 1847 after Lucy’s death.

The exhibited in 1851 at the Great Exhibition and again at the International Exhibition of 1862 and their dressing cases won a silver medal at the Paris Exposition of 1867. In 1870 William Leuchars opened a shop in Paris under the name of Leuchars & Son. His son, also called William continued the business on when his father died and they won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition in 1878.

William Jnr. sold the business, including their factory in Sherwood Street to Asprey in 1888 and continued to trade in Piccadilly until 1902.

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A KIND EBAYER TOLD US THE CORONET ABOVE THE CYPHER DENOTES AN EARL?