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Lot 1496
Three 19th Century French First Standard Silver Servers
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Including a sauce boat with attached undertray with circa 1819-1838 hallmark and "GT" maker's mark; a circular plate with post 1838 hallmark and no apparent maker's mark (11 7/8 in. diameter) (with denting); and an oval platter with post 1838 hallmark and mark of Francois Diosne of Paris (circa 1842-1859) (16 in.) (some scattered denting); each with reeded edge and period "MD" monogram.

80.2 total troy oz.

By descent from the John Jacob Astor IV family of Rhinebeck, New York, through William Astor Drayton, the father of Countess Margaret (Peggy) Reventlow, philanthropist and patron of services for the blind