An attractive antique Scottish sterling silver three-piece tea service, comprising a teapot, a milk/cream jug and a swing-handled sugar basket with a gilded interior. All three pieces are of faceted, panelled form decorated with bright-cut engraved foliate banding and vacant cartouches, in the neoclassical taste. The teapot has an ebonised wood handle and finial.Each piece carries a full set of Glasgow hallmarks: the Glasgow town mark (tree), the lion rampant for sterling standard, the Queen Victoria duty mark, the date letter ( I ), and the maker''s mark. The jug and sugar basket show ''DCR'', attributed to the well-documented Glasgow silversmith David Crichton Rait. The teapot makers mark is partially visible and appears to be ''JR'', which is likely to be a another member of the Rait family. Reading the date letter against the Glasgow cycle, the marks appear to correspond to circa 1879. Clear close-up photographs of the hallmarks are included so you can satisfy yourself as to th...