A FIVE-PIECE TEA-SERVICE, maker's mark of Ball Black & Co., New York, circa 1860, 950 silver standard, waste-bowl sterling, comprising tea-kettle, stand and lamp, teapot, two-handled covered sugar-bowl cream-jug and waste-bowl, each slightly concave lobed urn-form, each engraved with vertical grapevine, the central lobe engraved with script initials R.H, all below engraved grapevine band, on molded raised circular foot, with scroll handles, the pots with partly domed hinged cover topped by large cast flower form finial, with applied die-rolled tightly woven band borders; the tea-kettle with overhead swing handle, all on chained hinged circular stand resting on four multi-scroll and shell supports, with central circular burner--tea-kettle on stand over handle 14in. (35.5cm.), gross weight 136oz.