PROPERTY FROM A MARYLAND PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN ASSEMBLED AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE
MARK OF WILLIAM B. DURGIN CO., CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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AN ASSEMBLED AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE
MARK OF WILLIAM B. DURGIN CO., CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Chrysanthemum pattern, variously engraved, comprising:
Twenty tablespoons
Twenty-three dessert spoons
Nineteen soup spoons
Thirty-four cream soup spoons
Twenty-four bouillon spoons
Eighty-three teaspoons
Twenty-four iced tea spoons
Thirteen citrus spoons
Twenty-four chocolate spoons
Forty-five coffee spoons
Sixty-six dinner forks
Sixty-six luncheon forks
Thirty-two salad forks
Thirty-eight fish forks
Nineteen pastry forks
Thirty ice cream forks
Seventeen berry forks
Two terrapin forks
Twenty-four seafood forks
Thirty-seven oyster forks
Fifty-seven dinner knives
Forty-two luncheon knives
Twelve steak knives
Twenty-five fish knives
Seventeen fruit knives
Twenty large butter spreaders
Nine small butter spreaders
Six cold meat forks, in different forms and sizes
Five serving forks
A vegetable serving spoon
Six large serving spoons
A medium serving spoon
Five small serving spoons
Two cheese scoops, in sizes
A toast fork
Five bonbon spoons
An hors d'ouerves fork
An olive fork
A long handled olive fork
A pickle fork
A pickle serving knife
Two butter picks
A master butter knife
A food pusher
A child's fork and knife
A pierced serving spoon
An ice cream server
Two pastry servers
Three preserves spoons
A pierced sugar spoon
A two-piece fish serving set
A smaller fish server
Three berry spoons
An asparagus server
Two flat servers, or waffle servers
Five lettuce forks
A punch ladle
A soup ladle
Three sauce ladles
Two cream ladles, one gilt and enameled
Three pairs of sugar tongs, one larger
Two nut picks
A pair of ice tongs
A gilt and enameled cracker spoon
A fried oyster server
A cucumber server
A pierced confection spoon
Four sugar spoons, one gilt and enameled
With an associated wood storage drawer;
Together with a serving fork, tomato server, pierced flat server, and small pastry in similar patterns
567 oz. 18 dwt. (17,662 gr.) gross weighable silver
MARK OF WILLIAM B. DURGIN CO., CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Chrysanthemum pattern, variously engraved, comprising:
Twenty tablespoons
Twenty-three dessert spoons
Nineteen soup spoons
Thirty-four cream soup spoons
Twenty-four bouillon spoons
Eighty-three teaspoons
Twenty-four iced tea spoons
Thirteen citrus spoons
Twenty-four chocolate spoons
Forty-five coffee spoons
Sixty-six dinner forks
Sixty-six luncheon forks
Thirty-two salad forks
Thirty-eight fish forks
Nineteen pastry forks
Thirty ice cream forks
Seventeen berry forks
Two terrapin forks
Twenty-four seafood forks
Thirty-seven oyster forks
Fifty-seven dinner knives
Forty-two luncheon knives
Twelve steak knives
Twenty-five fish knives
Seventeen fruit knives
Twenty large butter spreaders
Nine small butter spreaders
Six cold meat forks, in different forms and sizes
Five serving forks
A vegetable serving spoon
Six large serving spoons
A medium serving spoon
Five small serving spoons
Two cheese scoops, in sizes
A toast fork
Five bonbon spoons
An hors d'ouerves fork
An olive fork
A long handled olive fork
A pickle fork
A pickle serving knife
Two butter picks
A master butter knife
A food pusher
A child's fork and knife
A pierced serving spoon
An ice cream server
Two pastry servers
Three preserves spoons
A pierced sugar spoon
A two-piece fish serving set
A smaller fish server
Three berry spoons
An asparagus server
Two flat servers, or waffle servers
Five lettuce forks
A punch ladle
A soup ladle
Three sauce ladles
Two cream ladles, one gilt and enameled
Three pairs of sugar tongs, one larger
Two nut picks
A pair of ice tongs
A gilt and enameled cracker spoon
A fried oyster server
A cucumber server
A pierced confection spoon
Four sugar spoons, one gilt and enameled
With an associated wood storage drawer;
Together with a serving fork, tomato server, pierced flat server, and small pastry in similar patterns
567 oz. 18 dwt. (17,662 gr.) gross weighable silver
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1997, lot 42 (part).
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