Postby dognose » Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:38 am
The beautiful silver dinner service presented on May the nineteenth to General Leonard Wood by representative citizens of the Republic of Cuba was ordered by cable from Tiffany & Co. a few days before. The instructions were to send the richest set possible for five thousand dollars, and within a few hours of the receipt of the cablegram this house has selected its superb Indian Chrysanthemum solid silver dinner service and had it on its way to Havana the next day. The service consists of a pair of candelabra, nine lights each, valued at two thousand dollars a pair, also a tureen, a pair of vegetable dishes, pair of double dishes, pair of gravy boats, a salad bowl, a twenty-two-inch meat dish, an eighteen-inch meat dish, a thirteen-inch entree dish, a fourteen-inch serving tray, a handsome centrepiece and four compotiers.
Source: Brooklyn Life - 31st May 1902
Trev.