- Titles Carving Set (Descriptive)
- Artist Gorham Manufacturing Company, United States, 1865 - 1961
- Medium silver
- Dimensions .1, fork: 1 × 10 1/8 × 3/4 in. (2.5 × 25.7 × 1.9 cm) .2, knife: 3/4 × 12 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (1.9 × 31.1 × 3.2 cm) .3, spear: 1 × 12 3/4 × 2 in. (2.5 × 32.4 × 5.1 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James Meissner, 1991.1230.1-.3
- Work Type carving set
- Classification Tools & Equipment
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the handles the Gorham factory mark and the word STERLING and number 40.
- Inscription Each of the handles engraved with a monogram between the dates 1852 and 1877.
- Provenance Elva Kessler Meissner (1905-1995; Mrs. James A. Meissner, died 1936), Birmingham, Alabama; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1991