Six-piece Marcus & Co. Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Service

Description:

Six-piece Marcus & Co. Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Service, New York, late 19th/early 20th century, each monogrammed, with inverted baluster-form bodies, each with a different floral or foliate motif, kettle on stand with burner decorated to kettle with a rose vines to the body and corresponding finial, coffeepot with chestnut branches, teapot with fuchsias, covered sugar with chrysanthemums, creamer with daisies, and open waste bowl with oak branches, kettle on stand ht. 12 in., approx. 184.7 troy oz.
Estimate $2,500-3,500

All with light usage wear and surface abrasions. Insulators with shrinkage cracks. Teapot with handle seam partially visible. Creamer with shallow dent to handle and handle seam visible. Coffeepot with two short parallel nicks to body. Sugar with visible handle seams.


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