Vintage Tiffany Sterling Silver desert spoon? (2 pieces) Rare Tiffany Pat 1889

  

Vintage Tiffany Sterling Silver desert spoon? (2 pieces) Rare "Tiffany" Pat 1889. Attractive set of antique Tiffany sterling flatware in the rare Tiffany pattern, comprising matching set of Dessertspoons. The pattern is lovely, described as "Renaissance Revival, with modified Greek double scroll with shell like antefix and honeysuckle blossom" in the Tiffany Flatware book. It was produced between 1869 and 1917.

In 1956 this pattern was re-introduced as the Beekman pattern, which does not have the intriguing scrolls that protrude halfway up the stems. Each piece has a monogram, and each is clearly hallmarked "C Tiffany & Co, Sterling, PAT 1889". They are of exceptional quality, as you would expect from Tiffany, and are all a good weight. The Tiffany Silver Flatware book describes this pattern as "rare, seldom seen" (page 171). This pattern was the first flatware pattern that Tiffany produced, it was launched in 1869.