Exquisite Antique French PUIFORCAT Sterling Silver 109pc Gothic Style Flatware Set, a 6pc Setting for 18!
Rare and magnificent antique French PUIFORCAT "Fer de Lance " pattern sterling silver 109pc flatware set, a 6pc table setting for EIGHTEEN with one large dessert or ice cream serving piece and kept in the original two-layer black leatherette storage chest! All flatware with a highly attractive and rare Gothic style pattern with what appears to be either "CG" or "GC" monograms. Also rare to find such a comprehensive assortment, complete for eighteen. So often these old sets are broken up through generations and we see them come to auction only in small piece lots - a shame, and yet it's the result of division of estates through the years and so it happens. But here you see a stunning and complete PUIFORCAT 109 piece service and all in a fine old chest, too. The PUIFORCAT name, as I'm sure I need not say, has a long and lauded history in Paris (and throughout the world for that matter). Maker to royalty, known for only the finest of the fine. Now owned by Hermes, Puiforcat continues