An American Silver Lap-Over Edge Flatware Service, Tiffany & Co., New York, Circa 1880 and Later

most pieces monogrammed BWW, the handles decorated with various etched plants, animals, and scenes, some identified on the back, some pieces parcel-gilt (pg), comprising:

12 dinner knives including tomatoes, peas, a lobster and lily pads, a guinea fowl, crowing cock on cottage fence, celery, three field mice, and monkeys arguing over food

12 dinner forks including sunfish, a grasshopper, willow and birds, Japanese flowers, maple leaves and water, crawfish, peacock, and grasses

12 lunch knives including birds on reeds, flowering vine, squirrel on branch, carp in aquatic plants, pair of ducks, lily, munching rabbits, geese in flight, and cherry branches

12 lunch forks including strawberries, barberries, currants, cranberries, huckleberries, service berries, gooseberries, mulberries, and wild cherries

12 fish knives including frogs in reeds, a fish eating a crab, a bottom-feeder, exotic fish, various shells, seaweeds, and two lobsters

12 fish forks including horseshoe crabs, sea anemone, shrimp, a skate, barnacles, turbot, medusae, star-fish, squid, spider crabs, and turtles

12 oyster forks (pg) shells including a Venus' comb, wentil-trap, scorpion shell, harp shell, crown volute, scallop, murex, fusus, and whelk

12 dessert knives including magnolia, peach, cherries and pear

12 salad forks including thistles, a gurnard, hummingbirds, a cricket in grass, clover, dill, a seahorse, and bleeding heart (with three recasts of the last)

12 butter spreaders including dandelion, eglantine, butterflies, dragonflies, trout, and sedge (with five recasts of the last)

12 soup spoons including peonie (sic.), pearch, dog wood berries, alcedo, wild rose, curl chrysanthemums, and frogs and lotus

12 bouillon spoons including ragged sailor, spider, forget-me-not, sensitive plant, flycatcher, vetch, and willow

10 tablespoons including pine, fern, hawthorne, peony, water lilies, owl on pine branch, and bird on bamboo

18 teaspoons including swallows, hummingbirds, willow, honeysuckle, thistles, and geranium (with four recasts of the last)

12 demitasse spoons (pg) including lobster, sedge, lilies of the valley, cattails, parroquette, and eglantine

12 iced tea spoons including asphodel, tea plant, snowflakes, butterflies, orange blossoms, bouvardia, mate, eidelweiss, goldenrod, and windflower (with one recast of ?peach blossoms)

12 citrus spoons including cricket in grass, geranium, gurnard, buffalo grass, hummingbird, thistles, and dill (with two recasts of the last)

12 ice cream forks (pg) including ivy, clover, and swallows

12 sorbet spoons including clover, gurnard, buffalo grass, seahorse, and bleeding heart (with one recast of ?dill)

5-piece carving set including two views of cows and sheep on hillside, rabbits munching, and charging buffalos

2-piece salad serving set (pg) with fern and fish

2 fish serving forks and a fish slice with maple leaves and water, a fruit treat, and honeysuckle

1 crumber with a frog and water lily

2 cold meat forks with ferns

1 large serving spoon with mountain ash

1 cream ladle with grasses

1 pair sugar tongs with fish

in fitted four-drawer oak chest with hinged lid.

(248 pieces)

294 oz 10 dwt; 9,159 g weighable