Wood & Hughes Three Piece Repoussé Coin Silver Tea Service

New York, mid-19th century, including a teapot (10 1/4 in.), covered double handle sugar (8 1/4 in.), and cream jug (8 in.), cream jug stamped W&H to the underside, each featuring a lobed body and cover decorated with floral repousse motifs, finely chased branch form handles and strawberry finial, raised on reticulated foliate scroll and cartouche feet.
The sugar with engraved dedication "Presented / to / Mrs. E. A. Curtis / by / the Young Ladies / L. S. F. H. S. / November 15th / 1857."
The cream jug engraved: "Presented / to / Mrs. E. A. Curtis / by / the Young Ladies / L. S. F. H. S. / November 15th / 1858."
Teapot without engraving.

66.27 total troy oz.

From the Historic Collection of Limestone University, Gaffney, South Carolina
Limestone College, now Limestone University, was founded in 1845 in Gaffney, South Carolina, by English-born Baptist minister Dr. Thomas Curtis and his son William. Originally established as the Limestone Springs Female High School, it was among the first women’s colleges in the nation and the very first in the state. The institution found its early roots in a former resort hotel near healing springs, later struggling due to the Civil War and Reconstruction. It revived in 1881 as the Cooper‑Limestone Institute, thanks to benefaction from industrialist Peter Cooper, and adopted the name Limestone College.

Some scattered light scratches; sugar with some pin point denting to basin.