An American silver Botticelli pattern flatware service, Frank M. Whiting & Co., North Attleboro, MA, circa 1950

comprising:
12 dinner knives
12 dinner forks
13 lunch knives
12 lunch forks
12 steak knives
12 dessert knives
12 butter spreaders
12 salad forks
12 cocktail forks
24 teaspoons
12 dessert spoons
12 soup spoons
12 iced tea spoons
6 coffee spoons
4 tablespoons
8-piece carving set
1 poultry shears
1 roasting fork
4 salad servers (one pair with wood bowls)
1 fish server
1 cold meat fork
1 serving spoon
1 vegetable spoon
1 gravy ladle
1 cheese wire
1 cake knife
1 angel food cake server
1 pastry server
1 master butter knife
1 sugar spoon
1 bottle opener
205 pieces

Frank M. Whiting family

several of the knives with small dents to tips of handles, some pieces with rubber band marks on handles: 2 iced tea spoons, 1 lunch fork, 1 teaspoon; otherwise good, in mostly unused condition
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Burton Boardman is the current president of J.C. Boardman & Co., which began production of sterling, pewter, silver-plate, and brass hollowware in 1949. The company was founded by his father, Joseph C. Boardman, but is part of a long family tradition of metalworking. Burton and Joseph are descendants of J.C. Boardman, who was making silver and pewter goods in Hartford, and Luther Boardman, a metalsmith working in East Haddam, both working in the middle of the 19th century. Today, the firm is well known for its line of catalog items and its special orders, including reproductions for New York’s MoMA and sporting trophies.