Gorham Melrose Sterling Silver Flatware Service for Twelve

(124) pieces to include: (12) dinner knives (9 1/2 in.); (12) dinner forks (7 3/4 in.); (12) salad forks (6 5/8 in.); (12) teaspoons (5 7/8 in.); (12) oval bowl soup/dessert spoons; (12) iced tea spoons; (12) seafood forks; (12) demitasse spoons; (12) butter spreaders; (2) tablespoons; a pierced tablespoon; a salad fork and spoon set; a gravy ladle; a sugar spoon; a jelly spoon; a bon bon spoon; a lemon fork; a pickle fork; a carving knife and fork set; a pie or cake server; a cake breaker; and a cheese knife; all with EMC monogram.

129.1 weighable troy oz.

From the Collection of Joseph and Elizabeth Crute, Arkansas and Powhatan County, Virginia
Joseph Hunter Crute, Jr. (1930–2014) was an American Civil War historian, author, lecturer, and publisher best known for his works on Confederate military history, including Units of the Confederate States Army (1987) and The Derwent Letters (1985). A graduate of Washington & Lee University, he worked as an English and history teacher before becoming a respected independent historian and author. Crute and his wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Crute, owned and restored historic Derwent Plantation in Virginia, where Robert E. Lee briefly resided after the Civil War before accepting the presidency of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), which inspired the name of his publishing imprint, Derwent Books.

Good estate condition.

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