A Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight-Piece Gorham Versailles Pattern Silver Flatware Service, Providence, Rhode Island... (Total: 238 Items)

Description

A Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight-Piece Gorham Versailles Pattern Silver Flatware Service, Providence, Rhode Island, designed 1888
Marks: (lion-anchor-G), STERLING, COPYRIGHTED '88, (various)
9-3/4 inches (24.8 cm) (longest, dinner knives, each)
267.15 troy ounces (weighable)

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, CALIFORNIA

The lot comprising:
24 dinner knives;
25 dinner forks;
22 luncheon knives;
24 luncheon forks;
16 tablespoons;
24 teaspoons;
10 small teaspoons;
11 demitasse spoons;
6 pastry forks;
24 seafood forks;
1 master butter spreader;
21 butter spreaders;
24 serving spoons;
1 ladle;
4 master salt spoons;
1 olive fork.
238 Total

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