Dresden Scroll by Lunt

Dresden Scroll by Lunt was introduced by Lunt in 1971. By the design, my guess is that the name of this pattern was perhaps influenced by the famous Dresden lace.

Teaspoon (6 inches)



Cake Breaker (11 inches)



Cheese Knife (7 inches)



Cocktail Fork (5 3/4 inches)

Ice Cream Scoop

The Ice Cream Scoop would have been a popular and appropriate piece in the Victorian and Edwardian times given their love of the dessert. 

John and Priscilla by Westmorland (1940) (8 1/2 inches)


Triumph by Tuttle (1994) (9 inches)



Violet by Wallace ( 1904) (7 7/8 inches)



Spanish Lace by Wallace (1964) (9 inches)

Rose Cascade by Reed and Barton

Theodore E. Cayer designed Rose Cascade for Reed and Barton in 1957. The design is delicate but you can see a small "cascade" of roses at the tip of the stem. Cayer also designed Reed and Barton's Classic Rose pattern (1954)

Sugar Tongs (4 3/4 inches)



Bar Knife (HH) (8 3/8 inches)



Large Jelly Server (6 3/8 inches)



Individual Salt Spoon (2 3/8

Hawthorne by Reed and Barton

Reed and Barton's 1934 pattern Hawthorne is a simple but elegant design with a ribbed edge around the entire handle.


Fork (7 7/8 inches)



Fruit/Orange Spoon (6 inches)

Tomato Server (7 3/4 inches)



Salad Serving Spoon with Wooden Bowl

Pointed Antique by Reed and Barton

A very simple pattern, Pointed Antique was introduced by Reed and Barton in 1895 . 

Salad Fork  (6 1/4 inches)



Brandy Warmer (4 1/2 inches)



Fish Fork (HH) (7 3/4 inches)



Ice Scoop (8 3/4 inches)

Petite Fleur by Reed and Barton

Reed and Barton's Petit Fleur pattern was introduced in 1961.  The name of the pattern is clearly revealed in the design. Like many patterns of its time, it is simple.


Sugar Spoon (6/14 inches)


Steak Knife (9 3/4 inches)





Bon Bon Spoon (4 7/8 inches)



Baby Fork ( 4 1/2 inches)

Sterling Silver Flatware and the White House

If you ever get invited to dine at the White House you would expect to have sterling flatware at your place - well not so much now. (But I'll get back to that later.) 

In the 1860's Mary Todd Lincoln chose the Josephine pattern by Gorham (1855) to use at the White House for entertaining.  

Mrs. Grover Cleveland (in the the mid to late 1880's) selected the most formal sterling pattern used at the White House. It was a vermeil pattern (I do not have the pattern's name) by Durgin. The pattern was made with gold inlayed on the silver, with the engraved eagle and beaded edge.  The knives had mother of pearl handles.  This pattern continued to be used for State Dinners through the Obama administration. (And I assume for the first State Dinner of the Trump administration.) (I could not find a good example to show here.)

During the Coolidge administration (1926), the White House adopted Minuet (1925) by International Silver. It is a more simple design than both the vermeil or Josephine patterns.

In 1974 Pat Nixon chose the Kings Charles pattern by Gorham. This pattern was based on the original King George pattern that dated back to the 1800's. The pieces for the White House service were cast in the original 1894 casts. King Charles is a rococo design. 

While the Bushes (41) continued to use the King Charles pattern in the White House, they added Gorham's Chantilly pattern to service on Air Force One.

The Obamas tended to use the King Charles pattern for luncheons and more informal dinners. For State Dinners and more formal functions Michelle Obama chose to use the vermeil pattern.

Then we come to the current administration - the Trumps. Apparently, keeping with his "Make America Great Again" slogan, President Trump has recently committed to commissioning a new flatware service for the White House, a Liberty Tabletop Flatware pattern from the Sherrill Company. (The exact pattern has yet to be be chosen.) According to the President, the Sherrill Company manufactures the "last flatware made in the United States". However, they do not manufacturer sterling silver, nor is it silver plate. Sherrill only manufacturers stainless steal. Yes, State dinners at the White House will now feature stainless steel flatware.

Personally, I take issue with this. First, there are already several (American made) sterling silver patterns already commissioned for the White House - since the 1860's. Second, being a southern reared girl, no decent dinner table is set with stainless, much less a state dinner at the White House. But most of all, I'm not sure sure where the President got his information. Anyone can look it up and see that currently eight of the top sterling producers still manufacture all their sterling silver flatware patterns in the ol' US of A. This includes Reed & Barton, Towle, Gorham, Wallace, International, Kirk Stieff, Tuttle, and Lunt. 

Georgian Rose by Reed and Barton

Reed and Barton introduced their Georgian Rose in 1941.

Pierced Tablespoon (8 1/2 inches)



Salad Serving Set





Lemon Fork (5 inches)

Priscilla and John by Westmorland

It is always interesting to learn the provenance of a pattern's name. In the case of Westmorland's Priscilla and John ((1940), my guess is that this pattern was named for the  characters in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish". Priscilla is known to literary history as the unrequited love of newly widowed Captain Miles Standish. According to the poem, Standish asked his good friend John Alden to propose to Priscilla on his behalf, only to have Priscilla ask, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”

Individual Salt Spoon ( 2 3/8 inches)




Butter Spreader (HH) (6 1/8 inches)




Casserole Spoon (9 inches)

Two Piece Baby Set

Bottle Opener

The sterling Bottle Opener is a very practical piece. It up-scales your bar anytime you are entertaining.


Rondo by Gorham (1951)  (5 1/2 inches)




Du Barry by International (1968) (7 1/4 inches)



Silver Masterpiece by International (1970) (6 1/2 inches)



Candlelight by Towle (1934)  (5 3/4 inches)