Large Reed and Barton Francis I Sterling Silver Flatware Service, 249 pieces total. Includes 30 knives (18 with New French Blades, ranging in size from 8 7/8" to 9 1/2", and 12 with modern blades, all 9" L); 12 steak knives; 16 dinner forks (7 3/4" L); 25 luncheon forks (7 1/8" L); 23 salad/dessert forks; 23 teaspoons; 12 iced tea spoons; 12 place/oval soup spoons (6 3/4" L); 10 dessert/oval soup spoons (7 1/4"L); 16 round bowl soup spoons; 16 ice cream forks; 12 cocktail forks; 16 flat handle butter spreaders; 7 demitasse spoons; 3 table/serving spoons; 1 fruit knives; 4 baby forks; 2 baby spoons; 2 youth knives; 1 youth fork; and 2 long handled infant feeding spoons. Also included is 1 sugar shell; 1 jelly server; 1 master butter knife; and 1 lemon fork. Some old Reed and Barton pictorial marks, some with script marks, all marked sterling. 286.09 oz total weighable silver.

The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

Overall very good condition with a few pieces monogrammed.