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Show QUEEN MAB.Y'1 TABLEWARE. ' Oueen Mary's pantry at Windsor is said to contain the mint valuable collection col-lection of tableware is th world. Kv-erv Kv-erv design since Queen Ktirabeth's has contributed to the collection, which Is stored in two rooms. The walls are lined with casee made of plate glaee and mahogany, with aimilar cases occupying occu-pying the center of each room The moet imposing thing ia thene two rooms is the dinner scrvtre of solid gold usml only for dinners of Ike 'highest Stat. There i a table) of solid silver three feet in length. A silver gilt flagon almost al-most a vsrit high is said to have been saved from the Armada. A pair of bcjlows mouuted in eilver and gold was oar the property of Nell tiwyn. There ie a maeah pair of firedog in solid silver, msde for hariea II., and huge punch bowl was contributed by tieurge IV. New York Sun. ' |