Two rare Worcester white hafts and a collection of Chelsea white hafts, circa 1750-60 Of pistol grip form with silver ferrules variously mounted with blades and prongs in both steel and silver, the Worcester examples comprising two fork hafts moulded with a 'strung coin' design, 7.5cm long excluding mounts, the Chelsea examples comprising a knife moulded with lily and scrolled leaves, 9cm long excluding mounts, two knives and a fork moulded with flowering prunus, 6.5-9.5cm long excluding mounts, a knife and four forks moulded with Gotzkowsky erhabene Blumen after Meissen, 8-10cm long excluding mounts, and two fork hafts with artichoke moulding and later silver prongs, 8cm and 11cm long excluding mounts, one knife and six forks with later silver mounts with London hallmarks for Koester & Co, dated 1932, one silver fork marked 'MAPPIN & WEBB', one silver fork unmarked (13) Footnotes: Provenance Phillips, 21 June 1995, lot 252 (part) (Worcester hafts), lot 256 (lily knife and three silver Gotzkowsky forks), and lot 257 (part) (silver prunus knife and artichoke forks) See Tony Stevenson, 'A Review of Chelsea, Chelsea-Derby and Derby Knife and Fork Hafts', ECC Trans, Vol.14, No.1 (1990), fig.3a for a prunus haft, fig.4a for a Gotzkowsky haft, fig.5a for a lily haft, and fig.7a for an artichoke haft. For the Worcester 'strung coin' hafts, see Tony Stevenson, 'A Review of Bow & Worcester Knife & Fork Hafts', ECC Trans, Vol.13, No.3 (1989), pl.182, fig.ii and that sold by Bonhams on 8 June 2005, lot 146. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing