A late Victorian antler and steel carving set, Scottish


The handles of the carving knife and fork modelled as stags, the fork with typical hinged guard, the blade of the knife marked 'DODGE / SHEFFIELD', the knife 46cm long; the fork 32cm long, (2)
|Provenance:Reputedly from Skibo Castle to the west of Dornoch in the Highland county of Sutherland, Scotland overlooking the Dornoch Firth. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the home of industrialist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), who much-improved and extended the dilapidated property.