An American Silver Flatware Service, most Dominick & Haff, New York retailed by Bailey, Banks & Biddle, Philadelphia, circa 1900

King pattern, most monogrammed WLMA, comprising:
twelve dinner knives
twelve dinner forks
eleven lunch knives
thirty-two lunch forks
fifteen butter spreaders
nine salad forks
twenty-five oyster forks, in two sizes
forty teaspoons
eighteen dessert spoons
five tablespoons
eighteen demitasse spoons
one mustard ladle
one berry spoon
two jelly spoons
one sugar spoon
Together with:
two silver-plated demitasse spoons
204 pieces, most in fitted wood box by Bailey, Banks & Biddle

ten oyster forks unmarked but with matching monogram, some lunch knife handles unmarkd or mark barely visible, a few tablespoons need a little straightening to bowls, wear to interior lining of box, overall good condition
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