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a lot of silver spoons and forks laid out on a tablesix spoons that are sitting on a black surfacea silver fork with a silver handle on a black backgroundsilver spoon with a wooden handle on a black background
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651 - A set of cutlery in similar styles, forming part of an 800/1…
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Estimate €1,200 - €1,500
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A set of cutlery in similar styles, forming part of an 800/1000 silver service (with scratches and minor knocks), comprising: Twelve forks engraved ‘E.M Black’ on the inside and monogrammed ‘EMB’ on the outside, by silversmith SAVAGE (Canada), with a ‘lion passant’ hallmark imitating British hallmarks, 19th century, Nine spoons, six of which are monogrammed ‘NM’, by silversmith J.C. FARR (active in Philadelphia in the early 19th century), two monogrammed ‘FXB’, silversmith I. REED & SON (active in Philadelphia between 1831 and 1850) and one engraved ‘H’, silversmith A. RASCH & CO (active in Philadelphia between 1805 and 1820). A tenth silver-plated spoon of a similar design is included, Twenty dessert spoons, thirteen of which are monogrammed SLF (except one), by silversmith INTERNATIONAL STERLING, ‘1810’ model created in 1930; five engraved ‘F. Black’, by silversmith John COX (active in New York between 1817 and 1856); one engraved ‘Jane Isadore’, by silversmiths H.L & E.J.Z; one monogrammed ‘EB’, by silversmith P.M.STATZELL; Twelve cream spoons monogrammed SLF (all but one), by the silversmith INTERNATIONAL STERLING, ‘1810’ model created in 1930; Twenty coffee spoons, including thirteen by the silversmith INTERNATIONAL STERLING, ‘1810’ model created in 1930, and seven by four different 19th-century Philadelphia silversmiths, Two sauce spoons monogrammed NM, by silversmith J.C. FARR (active in Philadelphia in the early 19th century); A sugar spoon with a shell-shaped bowl, monogrammed EWN, by silversmith H.L. & E.J. ZAHM (active in Lancaster from 1866), A butter knife monogrammed SLF, by silversmith INTERNATIONAL STERLING, ‘1810’ model, created in 1930. Weight: 3,422.80 g Also included: Fifteen knives with 800/1000 silver-clad handles, twelve of which are monogrammed SLB, A pie server with an 800/1000 silver-clad handle. Gross weight: 1213.27 g According to family tradition, this cutlery is said to have belonged to the Honourable James Black (1823–1893), a lawyer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, founder of the Prohibition Party in 1869 and a candidate for the US presidency in 1872. He and his wife, Eliza Murray Black (probably the monogram EMB), had, amongst other children, a daughter named Mary Black, who married Schofield; she lost two children in infancy, James and Isadore (the latter’s name appearing on a piece of cutlery from the set). One of their daughters, whose first name is unknown, married Mr Evans, and the family still lived in Pennsylvania, where, on 10 December 1934, their daughter Ellen Virginia Evans married General John Farnsworth Smoller, who would go on to fight with his division in Europe in 1945. Their daughter is the mother of the current owner of this cutlery, which has been passed down through five generations of women in the family. The silversmith John C. FARR was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between 1823 and 1858. He produced numerous items of cutlery in ‘coin silver’, that is to say, made from melted-down coins. Lot from a voluntary sale.
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About the sale Quintessence IV – Part 3: Tableware and Asian Arts
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Auction time 10/19/2026 at 2:00 PM
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