American silver Persian pattern flatware service, Tiffany & Co., New York, late 19th and early 20th century

most monogrammed ARD, comprising:
12 dinner knives
12 dinner forks
12 lunch knives
12 lunch forks
12 fish forks
12 dessert knives
12 teaspoons
12 dessert spoons
12 tablespoons
12 coffee spoons
12 parcel-gilt demitasse spoons
2 carvers
1 gravy ladle
1 parcel-gilt punch ladle
1 bon-bon shovel
2 master butter knives
1 sugar spoon
140 pieces, in a Tiffany & Co. fitted wood case mounted with brass plaque engraved Annie Rolan Durant

2 demitasse spoons and the bon-bon shovel unengraved; monogrammed EJB - 3 dinner forks, 2 dinner knife, 2 tablespoons; EJM - 10 demitasse spoons, 1 coffee spoon; KCB - 2 master butter knives; KSA - gravy ladle; BMK - sugar spoon; initialed S - punch ladle; dings to some knife handles but all handles tight and with Tiffany blades, the case with gaps for 2 serving pieces and for a sharpener for carvers, wood case with general surface wear and velvet interior curling at some edges and seams, otherwise good condition
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