Five-piece Gorham Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Service

Description:

Five-piece Gorham Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Service, Providence, 1921, each vasiform, with foliate scroll cartouches, monogrammed, coffeepot, teapot, covered sugar, waste bowl, and creamer, coffeepot ht. 9 3/4 in.; together with a Tiffany & Co. tea strainer; approx. 78.3 troy oz. total.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Tea service in good overall condition with only minor age-related wear: scattered pin prick dents, waste with several spots of silver rot to interior. Strainer with metal fatigue along handle joint, minor dent to bowl.


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