(6) Piece English Richard Comyns Sterling Silver Tea Set - Gross 141.595 ozt. Includes tea kettle with adjustable handle and attached stand for a heater, a tall tea pot, a squat tea pot, a sugar bowl, a creamer, and a waste bowl. All the pieces with lids have wooden finial tops and wooden handles. All marked on the undersides. 

Largest Size: 13 x 9 1/4 x 7 in. 

Gross Weight: 141.595 ozt. 

Richard Comyns is one of longest surviving manufacturing silversmith companies within London proper, originally established by William Comyns in 1859 when he purchased the business of Robert Tagg, an outworker of Rundell, Bridge & Co. The firm became William Comyns & Son in circa 1885 when sons Charles and Richard became partners, and expanded to a second location in Soho in 1903. William Comyns died 1916, and the business became William Comyn & Sons Ltd in 1920, with Richard H. Comyns as permanent governing director. The name was changed a final time in 1929 to Richard Comyns Ltd, and in 1953 the company was purchased by Bernard Copping, with their premises at Comyns House, Tower Street, London, WC2 still functioning in the 21st Century.

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