A FIVE PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, maker's mark of Wilcox & Eversten, retailed by Merrick, Walsh & Phelps Jewlery Co., late 19th Century, comprising teapot, coffee pot, two handled covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl, each pear shaped, the lower body flat chased with swirling flutes, the body chased and engraved with continuous flowering foliage and foliate scrolls, with part foliate scroll handle, the pots with partly fluted and foliate upcurved scroll spout, the hinged molded cover flat chased with floral band below radiating flutes topped by fluted button finial--the coffee pot 8½in. (21.5cm.) high, gross weight 76.5oz. (5)