Tiffany & Co. Assembled Olympian Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Service, New York, 1878-1947, some pieces bearing various monograms or armorials, thirteen dinner knives, twelve each: pie forks, fish forks (nine of one style and three in a similar style), and bouillon soupspoons; eleven each: dessert knives, dessert forks, dessert spoons, and orange knives; ten flat spreaders, six each orange spoons and serving spoons; two oyster forks, a dinner fork, demitasse spoon, teaspoon, five o'clock teaspoon, fruit fork, salt spoon, fish serving fork and spoon, ice cream slicer, master spreader, sugar tongs with shell tips, cold meat serving fork, gravy ladle with fluted bowl, large soup or oyster ladle with scalloped bowl, sardine serving fork, and a small four-tined fork, and two similar salts decorated with putti; approx. 190.6 total troy oz. weighable silver.
Estimate $10,000-15,000
Nine dinner knives with non-Tiffany blades and unmarked handles. Four dinner knives with old Tiffany blades and marked handles. Dessert knives with old Tiffany blades and marked handles. Dinner and dessert knives with probable monogram removal. Orange knives with replaced Tiffany blades. Individual spreaders and master spreader with dings to blades. Salts with loss to gold-wash and specks of black silver rot to bowl interiors. Demitasse spoon with Tiffany mark to back of bowl (may not be right). Sardine fork with deep, crudely-engraved heart and bow motif to bowl just beneath tines. Ice cream slicer with almost total loss to gold wash.
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