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MAKER'S MARK OF EMILE PUIRFORCAT, PARIS, CIRCA 1890
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A French silver table-service
Maker's mark of Emile Puirforcat, Paris, circa 1890
The plain handles with scroll finial, the spoons with rat-tail bowls, the knives with pistol handles, comprising:
Twelve table-spoons
Twenty-four table-forks
Twelve dessert-spoons
Twelve dessert-forks
Twelve fish-forks
Twelve fish-knives
Twelve ice-cream spoons
Twelve tea-spoons
Twelve coffee-spoons
Twenty-four cheese-knives, with steel blades
Twenty-four table-knives, with steel blades
A cheese-knife, with steel blade
Pair of sugar-tongs
Two serving-pieces
Pair of sauce-ladles
A cake-slice
Pair of salad-servers
A soup-ladle
Two pairs of serving-spoons and forks
Each engraved with the initials AD, fitted in drawers, fully marked
Together with fourteen butter-knives with mother-of-pearl handles
321ozs. (10,002gr.) excluding knives (182)
Maker's mark of Emile Puirforcat, Paris, circa 1890
The plain handles with scroll finial, the spoons with rat-tail bowls, the knives with pistol handles, comprising:
Twelve table-spoons
Twenty-four table-forks
Twelve dessert-spoons
Twelve dessert-forks
Twelve fish-forks
Twelve fish-knives
Twelve ice-cream spoons
Twelve tea-spoons
Twelve coffee-spoons
Twenty-four cheese-knives, with steel blades
Twenty-four table-knives, with steel blades
A cheese-knife, with steel blade
Pair of sugar-tongs
Two serving-pieces
Pair of sauce-ladles
A cake-slice
Pair of salad-servers
A soup-ladle
Two pairs of serving-spoons and forks
Each engraved with the initials AD, fitted in drawers, fully marked
Together with fourteen butter-knives with mother-of-pearl handles
321ozs. (10,002gr.) excluding knives (182)