MAKER'S MARK OF WHITING MFG. CO.
Details
A SILVER-GILT AND IVORY HANDLED IVORY PATTERN CAKE-SLICE, A JELLY-SERVER, THREE SERVING PIECES, TEN SEAFOOD FORKS AND A TEASPOON**
Maker's mark of Whiting Mfg. Co.
Each with partly swirling fluted handle, the fluted bowled spoon, seafood forks and teaspoon initialled MJB, with foliate decorated joins, and part-decorated bowls, comprising the cake-slice, a buffet spoon, an openwork vegetable spoon, a fluted bowled spoon and a spoon with long oval shallow bowl, the slice--12in. (30.4cm.) long (16)
Maker's mark of Whiting Mfg. Co.
Each with partly swirling fluted handle, the fluted bowled spoon, seafood forks and teaspoon initialled MJB, with foliate decorated joins, and part-decorated bowls, comprising the cake-slice, a buffet spoon, an openwork vegetable spoon, a fluted bowled spoon and a spoon with long oval shallow bowl, the slice--12in. (30.4cm.) long (16)
Literature
The jelly server is illustrated Fig. 6.27. p. 155, Charles L. Venable Silver in America 1840 - 1940, Marquand Book, Seattle, 1994
Further details
See illustration of part-lot
Sale room notice
This lot contains only nine seafood forks, not ten.