* An American Silver Flatware Service
Peer Smed, Brooklyn, NY, 20th Century
having an engraved script monogram EWS, comprising:
12 dinner knives with twin-headed eagle decorated handles,
12 dinner forks worked to show a two-masted ship within a shield cartouche terminal,
12 salad forks having a classical building motif within a shield cartouche terminal,
11 dessert forks with a windmill decorated terminal,
12 cocktail forks with a terminal decorated in the manner of The Great Seal of the United States of America,
24 teaspoons consisting of two sets of twelve with a floral terminal,
12 soup spoons with a sphinx mask terminal,
12 table spoons with a Sefer Torah terminal,
12 coffee spoons with a fleur-de-lis decorated terminal,
12 flat-handled butter spreaders with a knopped terminal, the handles worked to show a fasces,
7 serving articles with cornucopia decorated terminals, comprising two serving spoons, two serving forks, a cake server, a sugar scoop and a lemon fork.
138 items total
each item stamped with 'Peer Smeed' mark, 'Handwrought' and 'Sterling'
196 ozt 7 dwts weighable
Length of dinner knife 9 1/4 inches.
Estimate $20,000-30,000
Property from the Collection of Stephen and Barbara Byer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin