An American silver flatware service, Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, RI, circa 1906

Tuileries pattern (introduced 1906), monogrammed MRB, comprising:
twelve dinner knives
twelve dinner forks
twelve lunch knives
twelve lunch forks
eleven cake forks
twelve oyster forks
twelve ice cream forks
twelve butter spreaders
twenty-three teaspoons
six tablespoons
twelve soup spoons
twelve bouillon spoons
twelve demitasse spoons
twelve grapefruit spoons
one pie slice
one berry spoon
one jelly spoon
one sugar sifter
one pair sugar tongs
one salt spoon
178 pieces, in fitted wood box on stand, the central plaque repeating the monogram

some signs of use but overall good, decoration still crisp, dinner and lunch knives with plated blades still in good order
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