Description:
Durgin Iris Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Service, Concord, New Hampshire, early 20th century, twelve each: cream soupspoons, salad forks, ice cream forks, luncheon forks, demitasse spoons, and hollow dinner knives; eleven each: fruit spoons and hollow spreaders; eighteen each: place spoons and teaspoons; thirteen dinner forks, four serving spoons, two sugar spoons, small cold meat serving fork, hollow master spreader, gravy ladle, hollow punch ladle, hollow carving set, hollow pie server, and hollow cheese server; together with an assorted group of American pieces, twelve flatware: five unmarked, six sterling, including two Gorham, and an engraved coin silver spoon; an unmarked sterling shell-form dish, and a pair of unmarked salt and pepper shakers, approx. 192.4 total troy oz. weighable silver.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
In good overall condition with only minor usage wear. Two salad forks with tines bent very slightly out of alignment and one teaspoon handle bent very slightly.
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