A SIX PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE ON TWO HANDLED TRAY, maker's mark probably that of Meriden Britannia Co., comprising teapot, coffee pot, tea kettle, stand and lamp, two handled covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl, each monogrammed, vase shaped with bombe shoulder, on raised circular foot, chased and engraved each corner with scroll enclosed trelliswork rising to slender foliate reeds centering flower rising to sell within similar trelliswork and scrolls, the shoulder with further foliage, with applied berried laurel rims, the pots with hinged low domed cover similarly decorated and topped by foliate finial, with decorated spout and scroll handle, the tea kettle on bifurcated supports with pierced foliate apron between, with fixed overhead handle--height of tea kettle on stand over handle 14½in. (35.8cm.) high; the oval tray with conforming chased molded border and two part foliate handles--length over handles 31¾in. (80.6cm.), gross weight 308oz.

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A SIX PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE ON TWO HANDLED TRAY, maker's mark probably that of Meriden Britannia Co., comprising teapot, coffee pot, tea kettle, stand and lamp, two handled covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl, each monogrammed, vase shaped with bombe shoulder, on raised circular foot, chased and engraved each corner with scroll enclosed trelliswork rising to slender foliate reeds centering flower rising to sell within similar trelliswork and scrolls, the shoulder with further foliage, with applied berried laurel rims, the pots with hinged low domed cover similarly decorated and topped by foliate finial, with decorated spout and scroll handle, the tea kettle on bifurcated supports with pierced foliate apron between, with fixed overhead handle--height of tea kettle on stand over handle 14½in. (35.8cm.) high; the oval tray with conforming chased molded border and two part foliate handles--length over handles 31¾in. (80.6cm.), gross weight 308oz.

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