Beschreibung:

AN EXTENSIVE FRENCH SILVER DINNER AND TABLE SERVICE IN TWO FITTED MAHOGANY CHESTS PARIS, CIRCA 1900, MAKER'S MARK VB, WITH RETAILER'S MARK G. WUST The table service decorated with laurel branches and swags and with script monogram, each marked , in fitted mahogany case with brass furniture, comprising: FIRST DRAWER: Thirty-six tablespoons Twelve salt spoons (one unmarked) Forty-eight table forks SECOND DRAWER: Two serving spoons Twenty-four melon forks Forty-eight table knives with steel blades THIRD DRAWER: Twenty-four ice cream spoons Twenty-four fish forks Twenty-four fish knives with silver blades Two fish serving forks Two fish serving knives with silver blades Two salad servers Two dessert servers FOURTH DRAWER: Twenty-four dessert spoons Twenty-four dessert forks Two ice cream serving spoons Two berry servers Two sauce ladles Two sugar sifters Two grape shears Two flat pastry servers Two pastry serving slices A sugar tong FIFTH DRAWER: Twenty-four teaspoons Twenty-four coffee spoons Twenty-four pastry forks Four cake slices Two tart lifters Two dessert serving spoons Two sugar shovels Two flat dessert servers Two condiment forks Two sugar tongs SIXTH DRAWER: Twenty-four ice cream spoons Twenty-four fruit knives with silver blades Twenty-four fruit knives with steel blades A soup ladle A pierced condiment ladle Two meat carving forks with silver-plated tines Two meat carving knives with steel blades Two cheese knives with silver blades Two cheese knives with steel blades SEVENTH DRAWER: Twenty-four asparagus tongs Eighteen ramekins with porcelain liners Twelve salt cellars with glass liners Two pierced asparagus servers (weighable silver 703oz., 21893gr.) The dinner service, each with shaped strapwork rim with laurel branches and garlands and rosettes at intervals, engraved with the same script monogram, each marked , in fitted mahogany case with brass furniture, comprising: Two fish platters, 25¾in. (65.5cm.) long Seven graduated meat dishes, longest 20in. (50.8cm.) long Four graduated circular serving dishes, largest 14in. (35.6cm.) diameter Six parcel-gilt dessert stands, 9¾in. (24.8cm.) diameter Two parcel-gilt compotes, 6in. (15.2cm.) high Two silver-mounted cut-glass ewers fitted with sleeves for ice Two vegetable tureens and covers Two double-lipped sauceboats on stands Two cruet stands with cut-glass cruet bottles Two silver-mounted cut-glass pots and covers on silver dish stands A crumber A crumb pan (weighable silver 811oz., 25225gr.) (572)