Sale 2021
New York
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3 - 5 September 2008
Price realised
USD 6,000
Estimate
AN ASSEMBLED RUBY FLASHED GLASS PART SERVICE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY, comprising nineteen champagne flutes, seven water glasses, eleven white wine glasses, nine red wine glasses, eighteen port glasses, seventeen cordial glasses, nine beaker glasses, eleven fruit bowls, and two serving bowls The champagne flutes, the tallest, 7 1/8in. (18.4cm.) high (103)
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