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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 396044, member: 111"]I emailed Mitch at sterlingflatwarefashions.com years ago with the correct information on this pattern, and had to dig into my files to get the info again - the patents for the original eight designs were issued in late 1892, and introduced in sterling as 'Harlequin Floral Sets' of tea and coffee/demitasse spoons (the 'Harlequin' referring to each piece being different but complementary), a few other pieces were also produced. It was later reissued in the '40s in boxed sets of 8 sterling coffee spoons, the silverplate serving pieces were introduced in 1964 and sold at least into the early '80s - they were actually sold as 'Fiesta party sets' in boxed sets of 4 or 5 (the other piece in the sets was a cream ladle), but 'Harlequin' is the name that's usually applied to the pattern (there were at one point, later sterling versions of the serving pieces made, can remember seeing them, want to say '80s-'90s...)</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl</p><p><br /></p><p>1980 ad for your set:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]137691[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 396044, member: 111"]I emailed Mitch at sterlingflatwarefashions.com years ago with the correct information on this pattern, and had to dig into my files to get the info again - the patents for the original eight designs were issued in late 1892, and introduced in sterling as 'Harlequin Floral Sets' of tea and coffee/demitasse spoons (the 'Harlequin' referring to each piece being different but complementary), a few other pieces were also produced. It was later reissued in the '40s in boxed sets of 8 sterling coffee spoons, the silverplate serving pieces were introduced in 1964 and sold at least into the early '80s - they were actually sold as 'Fiesta party sets' in boxed sets of 4 or 5 (the other piece in the sets was a cream ladle), but 'Harlequin' is the name that's usually applied to the pattern (there were at one point, later sterling versions of the serving pieces made, can remember seeing them, want to say '80s-'90s...) ~Cheryl 1980 ad for your set: [ATTACH=full]137691[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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