* An American Silver Flatware Service
Peer Smed, Brooklyn, NY, 20th Century
having an engraved script monogram EWS, comprising:
12 dinner knives with twin-headed eagle decorated handles,
12 dinner forks worked to show a two-masted ship within a shield cartouche terminal,
12 salad forks having a classical building motif within a shield cartouche terminal,
11 dessert forks with a windmill decorated terminal,
12 cocktail forks with a terminal decorated in the manner of The Great Seal of the United States of America,
24 teaspoons consisting of two sets of twelve with a floral terminal,
12 soup spoons with a sphinx mask terminal,
12 table spoons with a Sefer Torah terminal,
12 coffee spoons with a fleur-de-lis decorated terminal,
12 flat-handled butter spreaders with a knopped terminal, the handles worked to show a fasces,
7 serving articles with cornucopia decorated terminals, comprising two serving spoons, two serving forks, a cake server, a sugar scoop and a lemon fork.
138 items total
each item stamped with 'Peer Smeed' mark, 'Handwrought' and 'Sterling'
196 ozt 7 dwts weighable
Length of dinner knife 9 1/4 inches.
Estimate $10,000-20,000
Property from the Collection of Stephen and Barbara Byer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
In overall good, stable, usable condition.
Moderate surface scratching throughout consistent with polishing and use. Small variations to decoration throughout consistent with handwrought nature of service. Some fork tines bent slightly out of alignment. One soup spoon with heavier scratching, nicks and gauges consistent with exposure to a garbage disposal.