The Maharaja of Patiala's Banqueting Service, a George V dinner service, 1921 (silver-gilt) (see also...

Each piece with a scroll and foliage and border and decorated with a palmette, die-stamped with a cypher below a crown on one side and either a coat-of-arms or an elephant on the other Commissioned by the Maharaja of Patiala in honour of a tour of India by Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, in 1922 and used at the State Banquet held in the Prince's honour on 24 February 1922. Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (1891-1938). One-hundred and sixty six table-forks One-hundred and eleven dessert-forks One-hundred and eleven dessert-spoons Twenty-one table-spoons Thirty-seven soup-spoons Thirty-seven coffee-spoons Six pairs of salad-servers Two pairs of fish-servers Six pairs of asparagus-tongs Six ginger-spoons Three pairs of grape-scissors Six spoons with shell shaped bowls and the following with filled handles One-hundred and seven table-knives with steel blades Seventy-four cheese-knives with steel blades Thirty-seven fruit-knives with silver-gilt blades Thirty-seven fruit-forks with silver-gilt tines Thirty-seven fish-knives with silver-gilt blades Thirty-seven fish-forks with silver-gilt tines Three melon-knives with silver-gilt blades Three melon-forks with silver-gilt blades