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Description

An Eighty-Eight-Piece Gorham Mfg. Co. Versailles Pattern Silver Flatware Dinner Service for Twelve, Providence, Rhode Island, designed 1888
Marks to longest: GORHAM
9-3/4 inches (24.8 cm) (longest, dinner knife)
3868 grams (124.36 troy ounces) (weighable)

The service comprising:
12 dinner knives;
12 dinner forks;
12 salad forks;
12 round soup spoons;
24 teaspoons;
5 demitasse spoons;
1 master butter knife;
1 serving fork;
7 serving tablespoons, four with monogram CSW;
1 sugar spoon;
1 gravy ladle.
88 Total

Property from the Estate of Margaret Grace Carlton, Los Angeles, California


Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.

Condition Report*: The service presents well, two dinner forks and one salad fork with slightly bent tines, a demitasse spoon with a pin dent to the bowl tip, overall wear commensurate with age, use, and polishing.
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Proxy Bidding Ends 
May
22nd Friday 9:50 am CT
Auction Dates
May
22nd Friday
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24 Days 3h 42m 25s
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This lot is in: 1 - Signature® Floor Session (Live Floor, Live Phone, Mail, Fax, Internet, and Heritage Live):
(Lots 74001-74235) - 10:00 AM Central Time, Friday, May 22, 2026.
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Dallas, TX 75261

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