An American Silver Flatware Service, Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, RI, circa 1920

Lansdowne pattern, engraved with initial P, comprising:
seventeen dinner knives
eighteen lunch knives
seventeen lunch forks
eighteen fruit knives
sixteen salad forks
twenty-two butter spreaders
eighteen oyster forks
sixteen teaspoons
eighteen dessert spoons
eighteen soup spoons
eighteen bouillon spoons
eighteen citrus spoons, parcel-gilt
eighteen demitasse spoons, parcel-gilt
232 pieces

fruit knives with some blades very slightly bent at tips, citrus spoons with gilding very worn, teaspoons with handle decoration very worn, most bouillon and all demitasse spoons and butter spreaders with salt stains, some butter spreaders, salad forks and all dessert spoons unengraved
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