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Lot 3074
Set of Eleven Mayflower Silver Teaspoons and a Sugar Sifter, Mostly Mitchell & Tyler, Virginia
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
(10) teaspoons and a sugar sifter with mark of "Mitchell & Tyler", and one sterling silver teaspoon with rubbed "S" mark, likely for Shiebler & Co., with retail mark of John H. Tyler & Co., all in matching pattern with script monograms to handles.

Teaspoons 6 in.; Sugar sifter 7 7/8 in.

11.4 total troy oz.

Private Collection, Wilmington, North Carolina

Mitchell & Tyler was a partnership between Samuel Phillips Mitchell and John Henry Tyler, silversmiths and owners of the largest silverware and jewelry businesses in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was active from 1845 until 1866.

Some minor pitting to bowls and rubbing to decoration.