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AN EXTENSIVE FRENCH SILVER DINNER AND TABLE SERVICE IN TWO FITTED MAHOGANY CHESTS

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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)