19 pieces Williams B. Durgin Company Watteau pattern sterling silver flatware, including 12 dinner forks (7 1/8" L); 3 dessert/oval soup spoons (7" L); and 4 tablespoons (8 3/8" L). 2 soup spoons monogrammed with script "F," all other pieces inscribed with script "Lucy" to handles. 27.440 total troy ounces. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition with normal surface wear, monograms.