1378 Samuel Kirk & Son Baltimore Standard (.917) Silver Sauceboat, third quarter 19th century, Baltimore Maryland, of oval form with everted spout, squared ram’s masque-crested squared handle and three pagoda-crested legs ending in pad feet, decorated all over with flowers and ferns in the traditional Baltimore manner, monogrammed on the underside “MG”, h. 5‑3/8”, l. 7‑1/4”, w. 3‑1/4”, 9.45 t. oz. [200/400] Illustrated on previous page 1379 Samuel Kirk & Son Baltimore Standard (.917) Silver Christening Mug, third quarter 19th century, Baltimore, Maryland, of ovoid form, with bifurcated scrolling vine handle, decorated all over with repousse flowers in the traditional Baltimore manner, centering a cartouche engraved “CFE / from / Grandma / 1870”, h. 4”, dia. 3‑3/4”, l. 4‑1/2”, 4.75 t. oz. [125/250] Illustrated on previous page 1380 Seventeen Pieces of S. Kirk & Son Old Baltimore Standard (.896) Silver Flatware, third quarter 19th century, including eleven unusual bright-cut trefid demitasse spoons, l. 3‑7/8”, and in the “Repousse” pattern, a fruit knife, l. 7‑1/4”, and five teaspoons, l. 5‑3/8”, variously monogrammed, 10.48 total t. oz. [0] Illustrated on previous page 1381 Samuel Kirk & Son Baltimore Standard (.917) Silver Hot Milk Jug, fourth quarter 19th century, Baltimore, Maryland, of slightly tapering cylindrical form, with insulated square handle, hinged flat lid with toupie finial and acanthus-chased “duck’s beak” spout, decorated all over in the traditional Baltimore manner with repousse flowers above basal acanthus banding, centering a cartouche monogrammed “CWM”, h. 6‑3/4”, l. 6”, dia. 3‑3/8”, 9.19 t. oz. [300/500] Illustrated on previous page 1382 Samuel Kirk & Son Baltimore Standard (.917) Silver Butter Dish, third quarter 19th century, Baltimore, Maryland, of flattened spherical form with opposing ringed lion’s masque handles, raised on four acanthus-crested claw-and-ball feet, the fitted domed lid with cast and applied floriform finial and lifting to reveled the pierced butter dish above an ice reservoir, decorated all over with repousse flowers and birds in the traditional Baltimore manner, overall, h. 6‑1/4”, dia. 6‑1/2”, w. 7‑1/2”, 21.79 t. oz. [500/800] Illustrated on previous page 1383 American Twelve-Piece Sterling Silver After Dinner Set, fourth quarter 19th century, in an elaborate floral scroll pattern, including a bonbon server, l. 4‑1/4”, six demitasse spoons, l. 3‑7/8”, and five ice cream spoons, l. 5‑1/4”, all with gilt bowls monogrammed “McJ”, 160 total t. oz. [0] Illustrated on previous page 1384 Two Hundred Thirty-Three Pieces of Stieff “Rose” Sterling Silver Flatware, the pattern introduced in 1892, Baltimore, Maryland, including five dinner forks, l. 7‑1/4”, twenty-six luncheon forks, l. 6‑3/4”, twenty-three salad forks, l. 6”, two seafood/cocktail forks, l. 5‑3/4”, one fish/dessert fork, l. 6‑1/2”, thirteen ice cream forks, l. 5‑3/4”, thirty-eight teaspoons, l. 5‑7/8”, ten dessert/ soup spoons, l. 7”, two bouillon spoons, l. 5‑1/2”, four
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cream soup spoons, l. 6‑1/2”, nineteen iced tea spoons, l. 8”, fourteen demitasse spoons, l. 4‑1/2”, fourteen citrus spoons, l. 5‑7/8”, sixteen gumbo spoons, l. 6‑3/4”, nine five o’clock spoons, l. 5‑1/2”, six parfait spoons, l. 5‑3/4”, eleven luncheon knives with stainless steel blades (nine “Blunt”-shaped, two “Old French”-shaped), six flat butter spreaders, l. 5‑7/8”, one master butter knife, l. 7”, one tablespoon, l. 4‑3/4”, one cold meat fork, l. 8‑3/4”, one sauce ladle, l. 5‑3/4”, two sugar spoons, l. 6”, one salad serving fork, l. 9‑1/4”, one jelly spoon, l. 6‑1/8”, one gravy ladle, l. 6‑1/2”, one salt spoon, l. 2‑3/4”, one berry spoon, l. 8”, one lemon fork, l. 4‑3/4”, one relish fork, l. 6”, and one flat server, l. 8‑1/2”, seventy-four pieces variously monogrammed, 280.04 total t. oz (excluding luncheon knives), presented in a fitted wooden case, 9‑1/4” x 17” x 11‑1/2”. [5000/7000] Illustrated on previous page 1385 Seven Pieces of Heer-Schofield “Baltimore Rose” Sterling Silver Flatware, first quarter 20th century, Baltimore, Maryland, including five salad forks, l. 6‑1/8”, a jelly spoon, l. 5‑1/2”, and a cake knife, l. 9‑1/4”, the latter two monogrammed, 9.70 total t. oz. [150/300] Illustrated on previous page 1386 Baltimore Sterling Silver Bread Tray and Sauceboat, first quarter 20th century, including a Heer-Schofield oval bread tray, 1905‑1928, l. 10‑3/4”, w. 8‑3/4”, and a Stieff bateau-form sauceboat, 1915, l. 8‑1/2”, w. 4‑3/4”, both decorated all over with repousse flowers in the traditional Baltimore manner, 20.89 total t. oz. [400/700] Illustrated on previous page 1387 Baltimore Sterling Silver Waiter, 1903‑1905, by the Baltimore Silversmiths Mfg. Co., of circular form, the everted rim decorated with repousse flowers in the traditional Baltimore manner, the plateau chased with a “quilted” diaper ground centering an engraved laurel cartouche monogrammed “JHMcD”, dia. 8‑1/4”, 7.59 t. oz. [125/250] Illustrated on previous page 1388 Two-Piece Baltimore-Style Sterling Silver Fish Serving Set, fourth quarter 19th century, by William B. Durgin Co., Concord, New Hampshire, including a fish serving fork with four tines, l. 8‑1/4”, and a fish serving knife with scimitar-shaped blades, l. 10‑1/4”, both with an all-over floral pattern and “wave scroll” edges, 5.65 total t. oz. [125/250] Illustrated on previous page 1389 American Sterling Silver Coffeepot and Creamer in the “Baltimore” Taste, ca. 1900, including a Baltimore Silversmiths Co. coffeepot of tapering cylindrical form with thin “gooseneck” spout, crested handle and hinged, domed lid, h. 9‑1/2”, l. 7”, and a William B. Durgin cream jug with pear-shaped body, crested handle and pad feet, h. 4‑3/4”, l. 3‑1/2”, both decorated all over with repousse flowers in the traditional Baltimore manner, the cream jug monogrammed on the underside “TDR”, 22.12 total t. oz. [400/700] Illustrated on previous page 1390 Pair of S. Kirk & Son Sterling Silver Condiment Bowls, mid-20th century, Baltimore, Maryland, each of inverted bell form, the everted rim embossed with flowers in the traditional Baltimore manner, raised on a double cavetto-molded circular foot, h. 3”, dia. 3‑7/8”, 10.16 total t. oz. [150/300] Illustrated on previous page
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