VICTORIAN ENGLISH SILVER BACHELOR'S TEA SET, MARKED ...

VICTORIAN ENGLISH SILVER BACHELOR'S TEA SET, MARKED
19th C. tea set includes a teapot, creamer and sugar bowl, all with gadrooned decoration and crest to one side.
London. Teapot dated 1885. Creamer and sugar bowl dated 1887.
Hukin and Heath (John Thomas Heath and John Hartshorne Middleton).
Please look at the set - the winner will receive exactly what is on the pictures.

SIZE: H. of teapot: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 inches). Weight: 459 grams.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $900 - $1000.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago silver bachelor's tea set was sold for $1.700 - please see the screenshot.
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WIKIPEDIA: A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms silversmith and goldsmith are not exactly synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are or were largely the same but the end product may vary greatly as may the scale of objects created. In the ancient Near East the value of silver to gold being less, allowed a silversmith to produce objects and store these as stock. Ogden states that according to an edict written by Diocletian in 301 A.D., a silversmith was able to charge 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, or 300 denarii for material produce (per Roman pound). At that time, guilds of silversmiths formed to arbitrate disputes, protect its members' welfare and educate the public of the trade. Silversmiths in medieval Europe and England formed guilds and transmitted their tools and techniques to new generations via the apprentice tradition. Silver working guilds often maintained consistency and upheld standards at the expense of innovation. Beginning in the 17th century, artisans emigrated to America and experienced fewer restrictions. As a result, silver working was one of the trades that helped to inaugurate the Technological and industrial history of the United States Silver-working shift to industrialization in America.