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AN EXTENSIVE AMERICAN SILVER-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Chrysanthemum pattern, most engraved with script initial G, comprising:
Eight tablespoons
Thirty-six dessert spoons
Eighteen soup spoons
Twenty-four chowder/gumbo spoons
Twenty-three iced tea spoons
Twenty-four teaspoons
Eighteen ice cream spoons
Six egg spoons
Twenty-seven dinner forks
Twenty-seven luncheon forks
Twenty-five fish forks
Fourteen pastry forks
Six ice cream forks
Twenty-four oyster forks
Twenty-seven dinner knives
Twenty-seven luncheon knives
Twenty-eight fish knives
Six dessert knives
Ten fruit knives
Twenty-four butter spreaders
A large two-piece carving set
A smaller three-piece carving set
Two cold meat forks
A lobster pick
Two serving spoons
A sauce ladle
Three lemon forks
A salt spoon
A pickle fork
593 oz. 10 dwt. (18,458 gr.) weighable silver
Provenance
Tiffany & Co., New York, 1 December 1982.
Michael Barcun, San Francisco, 15 May 1995.
The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver; Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1996, lot 37.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 January 1998, lot 2237.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, new York, 15 January 1999, lots 36 and 37.
Variously assembled in part from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty.