comprising 89 pieces, including 12 dinner knives, 12 dinner forks, 12 dinner spoons, 12 butter knives, 12 lunch forks, 12 cocktail forks, 12 teaspoons, 1 serving spoon, 1 slotted serving spoon, 1 serving fork, 1 sugar spoon, and 1 cake knife, together with the original leather carrying case

Private Collection, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007

Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, New Haven, 2006, p. 245

Overall in very good condition. The surfaces overall with faint scuffs and scratches consistent with age and gentle use and not visually distracting. Two of the cocktail forks each with minor and gentle bending to one tine. The leather box with some scuffing and light surface scratches throughout, and its handles with some minor rubbing, not visually distracting and consistent with age and gentle use. An exquisite set in very good condition, highly representative of Italian mid-century design.
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