A cutlery set (Barretina) with silverware for twelve people

A cutlery set (Barretina) with silverware for twelve people, D. Maria I, Queen of Portugal (1777-1816), wood fully covered with shark skin, bronze mounts en relief, red velvet lined interior with gilt metallic thread trimmings, 833/1000 silver cutlery, decoration en relief "Pistol handle", consisting of soup ladle, rice spoon, carving cutlery, 12 tablespoons , 12 meat knives and 12 forks, 12 teaspoons and sugar ladle, Portuguese, minor defects, faults and defects on the trimmings and on the velvet, four cutlery missing, adaptation of the cutlery to the case not allowing the lid to close, 6 tablespoons, 6 forks and 6 knives with Guimarães assay mark (1763-1784), 4 tablespoons with Guimarães assay mark (1792-1801), sugar ladle with Porto assay mark (1877- 1881), maker's mark attributable to Manuel António dos Santos Silva (c. 1887), soup ladle, carving tools, 2 soup spoons, 6 forks, 6 knives and 12 tea spoons without marks, pursuant to Decreto-Lei no. 120/2017, of September 15th - art. 2nd, no. 2, paragraph c). Notes: vd. ALMEIDA, Fernando Moitinho de; CARLOS, Rita - "Inventário de Marcas de Pratas Portuguesas e Brasileiras - Século XV a 1887". Lisbon: IN-CM, 2018, G-5, G-12, P-55b and P-473., Dim. - (barretina) 37 x 22 x 33 cm; Peso - (bruto) 4.472 g.