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AN AMERICAN SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE
Lot 255

AN AMERICAN SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1940

Closed21 January 2022

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USD 15,000

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AN AMERICAN SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1940
Century pattern, comprising:
Twenty-three teaspoons
Twenty-one coffee spoons
Twenty-four cream soup spoons
Seven bouillon spoons
Ten citrus spoons
Fourteen 'snub-nose' grapefruit spoons
Twenty-three dinner forks
Twenty-four luncheon forks
Thirteen salad forks
Eight ice cream forks
Twenty-three oyster forks
Twenty-five dinner knives, fourteen with blunt blades, eleven with pointed finger blades
Twenty-four luncheon knives, sixteen with blunt blades, eight with pointed finger blades
Twenty-three butter spreaders
A serving spoon
Two serving forks
In an associated wooden storage chest
292 oz. 14 dwt. (9,103 gr.) weighable silver

Specialist note

First introduced in 1937 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the firm, the Century Pattern was marketed in advertising by Tiffany & Co. as "a new flatware service of classic simplicity in the modern spirit" (J. Loring, Tiffany's 20th Century: A Portrait of American Style, New York, 1997). A flatware service in this pattern was sold from The Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower Collection, Christie's, New York, 19 January 2018, lot 218. The Eisenhower service, engraved with monogram DDE and later engraved The Columbine, was used by President Eisenhower aboard the Columbine II, the first presidential aircraft to use the now synonymous Air Force One callsign.