1892 1920 Kirk Stieff Rose Fine STERLING SILVER SILVERWARE Vintage Antique 32 Pc

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1892 1920 Kirk Stieff Rose Fine STERLING SILVER SILVERWARE Vintage Antique 32 Pc:
$1462.00

Stieff Company Fine Silver Rose Silverware in Original wooden box. Box is 1940\'s Art Deco NAKEN\'S Tarnish Proof Silverware Chest or Storage Box. 32 Piece setThe Chest is labeled This Chest Lined with Pacific Silver Cloth Prevents Tarnish. Sterling Stieff - REG Silver engraved on the Inside of Box. Like new Beautiful Vintage set of 1892 - 1930 Stieff Rose .925 Firth Sterling Silver flatware. First made by the Baltimore Sterling Silver Company later to be known as The Stieff Company

Stainless steel blades were invented in 1913 by Harry Brearley, who worked for Thomas Firth and Son in England. The “FIRTH” blades became popular in the United States in the 1920’s and many Stieff blunts are marked at the base of the blade…THE STIEFF COMPANY and underneath FIRTH STAINLESS or THE STIEFF COMPANY and FIRTH STAINLESS on the length of the blade (as on silver plated blades) with Wade & Butcher on the base of the blade.

Wade & Butcher was a historic steel manufacturing company in Sheffield England who made the Firth stainless under license from Thomas Firth and Son. Firth went out of business in 1959.

This set has many component pieces as well as the original wooden box painted brown with some signs of age as shown.

The BLUNTS are also known as Old French. All French blades have a small extension creating a 90 degree angle at the bottom of the blade just above the bolster.

NEW FRENCH blades have a curved blade shape. They also retain the classic French blade 90 degree angle at the base. (see below) Note that the tip of the knife tapers to a softer, more pointed blade tip than the blunt blades of earlier years. The top of the blade creates a bit of a curve downward as it reaches the tip and and a ever so slight upward curve along the bottom edge of the blade as it races towards the bolster at the base.

This Vintage Antique Stieff Rose Collection has the following 31 pieces:

5 Dinner knives which were 9 ½ inches

2 Dinner Forks 7-1/2\"

1 Large Salad or Dessert Fork 6-3/4\"

1 Oval Soup or Place Spoons 7-1/4\"

6 Teaspoons 6\" (2) still in original signed Stieff plastic sleeve, never opened

1 Serving Spoons 8-3/4\"

1 butter knive 7-1/4\"

8 butter spreader knives with G or D enscribed 5 3/4\"

1 Sugar spoon

1 Ladle 6\"

1 Serving spoon 9\"

1 Serving fork 9\"

1 beef or lettuce fork 9\"

2 meat forks 8\"

1 pickle fork 5

Stunning Collection, high quality, perfect condtion and design.

Pieces are marked Stieff Company Sterling silver

Please visit my store to see other fine silverware at Thanks to Scott Perkins at THESTIEFFCOMPANY.COM for all of the valuable information about Stieff Company Sterling Silverware.

CONDITION: Beautiful condition. Just the normal light fine surface scratching you would expect to find with a lightly used set. The pieces are shiny and clean with no dullness of the finish and no plate wear. Appears to have not been used. Gently hand polished and then hand washed and dried.