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A 202-PIECE SILVER AND SILVER-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE FROM THE MACKAY SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1878
Comprising:
12 table forks
12 dinner knives (steel blades)
12 tablespoons
12 teaspoons
12 fish forks
12 fish knives (silver blades)
12 lunch knives
12 pastry forks (gilt tines)
6 egg spoons (gilt bowls)
12 gilt dessert forks
12 gilt dessert spoons
11 gilt fruit knives (silver-gilt blades)
12 gilt butter knives (silver-gilt blades)
10 gilt ice cream spoons
12 gilt fruit spoons
12 gilt ice cream forks
6 gilt coffee spoons
1 soup ladle
1 sauce ladle
1 basting spoon
2 pierced serving spoons
1 pair of game carvers (steel tines and blade)
2 large double-ended narrow scoops
1 cheese serving knife (silver blade)
1 butter serving knife (silver blades)
1 pair of sandwich tongs
1 olive fork (gilt tines)
1 olive spoon (gilt bowl)
2 condiment spoons (gilt bowls)
1 gilt cake slice
1 gilt tart lifter
1 gilt berry serving spoon
1 gilt sugar sifter
1 gilt ice cream server with slide
2 gilt nut crackers
1 gilt condiment spoon
1 pair of grape scissors (202)
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1878
Comprising:
12 table forks
12 dinner knives (steel blades)
12 tablespoons
12 teaspoons
12 fish forks
12 fish knives (silver blades)
12 lunch knives
12 pastry forks (gilt tines)
6 egg spoons (gilt bowls)
12 gilt dessert forks
12 gilt dessert spoons
11 gilt fruit knives (silver-gilt blades)
12 gilt butter knives (silver-gilt blades)
10 gilt ice cream spoons
12 gilt fruit spoons
12 gilt ice cream forks
6 gilt coffee spoons
1 soup ladle
1 sauce ladle
1 basting spoon
2 pierced serving spoons
1 pair of game carvers (steel tines and blade)
2 large double-ended narrow scoops
1 cheese serving knife (silver blade)
1 butter serving knife (silver blades)
1 pair of sandwich tongs
1 olive fork (gilt tines)
1 olive spoon (gilt bowl)
2 condiment spoons (gilt bowls)
1 gilt cake slice
1 gilt tart lifter
1 gilt berry serving spoon
1 gilt sugar sifter
1 gilt ice cream server with slide
2 gilt nut crackers
1 gilt condiment spoon
1 pair of grape scissors (202)
Provenance
John W. and Marie Louise (Hungerford) Mackay
John W. Mackay III, grandson
Thence by descent
John W. Mackay III, grandson
Thence by descent