Deco Sterling Silver Flatware Service. Bernard Friedlander, Tel Aviv. 188 pcs
A rare Israeli sterling silver flatware service in a Deco style, by silversmith/jeweler/designer Bernard Friedlander, Tel Aviv, circa 1935.
Each slightly flaring rectangular handle with an up-turned squared terminal.
Set comprising:
12 dinner knives 10″ (Stainless Blades)
12 dessert/salad knives 8.25″ (Stainless Blades)
12 fish knives 8.25″
11 pastry/hors d’oeuvre knives 7″ (Stainless Blades)
11 teaspoons 5.4″
12 tablespoons 8.35″
12 dessert spoons 7.35″
11 iced teaspoons/sundae spoons 7.5″
12 ice cream spoons 5.35″
12 coffee spoons 4.5″
12 dinner forks 8″
11 pastry forks 6″
12 salad/dessert 7″ forks
12 hors d’oeuvre forks 5.75″
12 fish forks 7 1/8″
12 knife rests 3.25″
All applied with a stylized initial ‘N’. (It could also be a Chet or a Tuff in Hebrew letters)
Total weighable silver approximately 250 troy oz = 7,775 gams = 274 regular ounces PLUS you have 36 knives with sterling handles and stainless blades which are not weighed.
Total 188 pieces.
