Pair of American silver and mixed-metal entrée dishes and covers, Black, Starr & Frost, New York, circa 1880

oval, the dish and cover chased to simulate wood grain, the dish with bamboo rim and applied with copper branches with silver leaves, the cover applied with silver flowers and leaves with copper stalks and berries and with a silver crane and butterfly with gold body, with slip-lock bamboo finials

both with some shallow creases and minor dings throughout, one cover doesn't fit properly, otherwise good condition; traces of Whiting Mfg Co. mark on bases
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