Gorham "Old French" Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Service

Description:

Gorham "Old French" Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Service, Providence, c. 1916, monogrammed, twelve each: dinner forks, hollow dinner knives, luncheon forks, hollow luncheon knives, and place/dessert spoons, eleven teaspoons, ten spreaders, six each serving spoons and salad forks, in original Tilden-Thurber Co. box with engraved brass plaque to lid, together with twelve cream soupspoons, a gravy ladle, master spreader, sugar spoon, and a hollow bird carving fork and knife, each also Gorham "Old French," lacking monogram, approx. 125.2 troy oz. total weighable silver.
Estimate $1,200-1,800

All with light surface wear abrasions throughout, some scattered spots of corrossion. Knives with some minor dents to tips of hollow handles and more focused and pervasive area of corrosion all joints. Monogram "LM."


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