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Consigned to Anderson & Garland's sale on March 27 in Westerhope, the group includes punch bowls, meat skewers, posy vases, salvers and sets of knives and forks mostly from the 3rd and 4th Militia Battalions of the DLI.

This 14½in (37cm) Victorian claret jug with dragon handle by Joseph, Albert, Horace & Ethelbert Savory, London 1883 is estimated at £1000-1500.

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