Lot Details
Lot 132
Assembled French and American Silver Flatware Service
Charles-Salomon Mahler, Paris and Gorham Mfg. Corp., 19th/20th century
Comprising forty-seven dinner forks, thirty-six lunch forks, twenty-three fish forks, twenty-four dinner knives, twenty-three lunch knives, twenty-four fish knives, seventeen butter knives, thirty-six tablespoons, thirty-six dessert spoons, twenty teaspoons, four serving spoons, two sauce ladles, and a punch ladle; Together with a French Silver Eight Piece Carving Set. L. Bruneau, Paris. Total approximately 527 ounces, weighable.
This service descended in the family of William C. Rhinelander (1790-1878), one of New York's wealthiest landowners. His properties included a country estate of 72 acres in Yorkville on the Upper East Side along with almost the entire northern side of Washington Square Park from Fifth Avenue to MacDougall Street where the family kept their main residence from 1840 to 1914. At his death, the New York Times reported his estate to be valued at between $50 to $75 million.
C Property from the Rhinelander Stewart Family
Additional Notes & Condition Report
lunch forks - all French
fish forks - all Gorham
dinner knives - all Gorham, all with stainless blades, some with messy solder to blade joins
lunch knives - 6 Gorham
fish knives - all Gorham
teaspoons - all French
tablespoons - all French
dessert spoons - all French
serving pieces - all French
butter knives - all Gorham
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