An American Silver Flatware Service, Tiffany & Co., New York, early 20th Century

Renaissance pattern, most engraved with initial B, comprising:
eight dinner knives
twelve dinner forks
eight lunch knives
eight lunch forks
twelve butter spreaders
eight salad forks
eight oyster forks, parcel gilt
eight cake forks
eight ice cream forks
five pastry forks
eleven teaspoons
nine dessert spoons
six tablespoons
eight chowder/gumbo spoons
twelve coffee spoons
nine salt spoons
one pea server
one olive spoon
together with four salts with glass liners, by John Aldwinckle & Thomas Slater, London, 1894
146 pieces

good condition, pastry forks with initial Q
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