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April 23, 2026: Spring Fine & Decorative Arts - Day Two

Thu, Apr 23, 2026 09:00AM EDT
  2026-04-23 09:00:00 2026-04-23 09:00:00 America/New_York Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates : April 23, 2026: Spring Fine & Decorative Arts - Day Two https://live.jeffreysevans.com/auctions/jeffrey-evans/april-23-2026-spring-fine-decorative-arts---day-two-22585
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  • Silver - New England
Lot 1181

GORHAM & CO. AESTHETIC MOVEMENT COIN SILVER FIVE-PIECE COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

GORHAM & CO. AESTHETIC MOVEMENT COIN SILVER FIVE-PIECE COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE, comprising a coffee pot, a teapot, a covered sugar, a creamer, and a waste bowl, each with a round bowl having overlapping disk motif bands and one or two loop handles with foliate thumbrests, raised on a round foot, most with tall narrow necks, pots and sugar each topped by a lid or cover with a figural butterfly finial, pots also with bone insulators on handles. Each with the three Gorham pseudo hallmarks including a left-facing lion passant utilized from c.1855 to 1860 in addition to "COIN" and "170", all but waste bowl having retailer's marks for Crosby, Hunnewell & Morse of Boston, MA (active 1860-1863). Total weight including non-silver components: 86.995 ozt. Gorham & Co., Providence, RI (active 1852-1865). Mid 19th century. Coffee pot 10 1/4" HOA.
Catalogue Note: The butterflies on the lids and cover are a near match to the ones featured on the pair of open salts also by Gorham & Co. in lot 1182 of this auction.

Condition

Mostly in very good overall condition with minor to more moderate wear, surface scratches, and nicks, a few to some scattered dents mostly being minute to small in size; insulators with a few to some hairlines and cracks; coffee pot with two areas of splitting to interior seam of handle at top terminal; teapot with a short split to interior seam of handle at top terminal; sugar with a small hole to tip of lower terminal on one handle.

Provenance

The collection of Bo and Sandy Rose, Penn Laird, VA.

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