engraved with initial H, comprising:
12 dinner knives
12 dinner forks
12 dessert knives
12 dessert forks
12 fruit knives
11 butter spreaders 
12 salad forks
12 cocktail forks
24 teaspoons
6 tablespoons
12 soup spoons
12 bouillon spoons
12 citrus spoons
11 coffee spoons
12 iced tea spoons
5-piece carving set
3 cold meat forks
1 serving fork
3 serving spoons
1 gravy ladle
1 pie servers
1 berry spoon
1 preserve spoon
1 master butter knife
1 lemon fork
1 sugar spoon
1 sugar sifter
1 sugar tongs
in original fitted wood case, the cover mounted with a brass plaque initialed to match. Together with 1 plated pie server. 206 pieces total.

The H initial is for a member of the Hellmann mayonnaise family.  The firm was founded by Richard Hellmann (1876-1971) in 1912, and by 1927 he was selling $15 million a year, with plants throughout the country and homes in New York City, the Catskills, and California.

all with light signs of use, the large carving fork with dings to handle, the large carving knife and knife sharpener with dents to tips of handles, the other knife handles with no dents/dings; the wood case with signs of wear, the left hinge & lock for knife frame inside cover slightly dented and lacking hinge pin
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