A Ninety-One-Piece Tiffany & Co. Flemish Pattern Silver Partial Dinner Service for Eight, New York, circa 1918. ...

Description

A Ninety-One-Piece Tiffany & Co. Flemish Pattern Silver Partial Dinner Service for Eight, New York, circa 1918
Marks to longest: TIFFANY & CO., MAKERS, STERLING, M
10-7/8 inches (27.6 cm) (longest, pie and cake server)
5104 grams (164.10 troy ounces)

The service comprising:
16 table knives;
8 butter spreaders;
8 dinner forks;
8 fish forks;
8 forks;
8 place spoons;
8 soup spoon;
11 teaspoons;
8 demitasse spoons;
1 pie and cake server;
1 gravy ladle;
1 sugar spoon;
1 pair of tongs;
2 serving forks;
2 serving spoons.
91 Total

The service with monogram MAD, the married initials of Marjorie Downey Knowlton's mother, Mildred Adams Downey. The set was a wedding gift from her brother-in-law, WWI US Army Captain George Faber Downey Jr., when she married Fairfax Davis Downey (the son of Mattie Davis Downey) in Washington, D.C. on October 19, 1918.

Property from a Prominent Virginia Family

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