Description:
Four-piece Simons Brothers Sterling Silver Tea Service, Philadelphia, 19th/20th century, teapot, creamer, sugar, and open waste bowl, together with an associated Gorham kettle-on-stand of a similar pattern with a silver-plate burner, all monogrammed with urn-form bodies and beaded details to the rims, kettle on stand ht. 13 3/4 in., approx. 80.5 troy oz. total weighable silver.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
All with usage wear, scattered pinprick dents and spots of corrosion. Sugar probably originally had a lid.
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