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Americana at STAIR - August 1, 2024

Thu, Aug 1, 2024 10:00AM EDT
  • Property from the Estate of Carolyn Pesnell Amory, New York
Lot 579

Gorham Silver Flatware Service in the 'Versailles' Pattern

Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000
Sold for
$12,000
Sold Price excludes BP

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$200 $50
$500 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

Marked 'Sterling', monogrammed.

Comprising:

Forty dinner knives with steel blades and filled handles

Five slightly smaller dinner knives with steel blades and filled handles

Thirty-six lunch knives with steel blades and filled handles

Fourteen fish knives

Six fruit knives with steel blades and filled handles

Fifteen butter spreaders

Forty dinner forks

Sixty-four lunch forks

Twenty-eight salad forks

Six fish forks

Eight cocktail forks

Eight ice cream forks

Four tablespoons

Fourteen small soup spoons

Seven large soup spoons

Twelve teaspoons

Six iced teaspoons

Sixteen demitasse spoons with gilt bowls

A pair of sugar nips

A fruit spoon with gilt bowl

A mustard spoon with gilt bowl

Three-piece carving set with steel blades and prongs

Six serving spoons

Two serving forks

Two ladles

Two fish slices

Three casserole spoons in two sizes

Five pierced fork servers in three sizes

A pie slice

A cheese scoop

The dinner knives 9 1/4 in. long, 513.2 oz. approx. weighable, (357 pcs).

  

Condition

Wear consistent with use. Some rubbing to the decoration which is slightly less crisp to the knife handles. The sets of knives have varying blades styles, some likely replacements. A few bent tines, Some teaspoons with bent bowls. Otherwise in good condition.

Notwithstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.

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UPS Store #4541 230 Kings Mall Court Kingston, New York 12401 T: 845.336.4877 F: 845.336.3832 E: store4541@theupsstore.com

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The Estate of Carolyn Pesnell Amory, New York.