Silver and vermeil coffee service in box. Saint Petersburg, 1877. Six-piece service: a large tray with two handles, a cookie basket, a coffee pot, a sugar bowl with its tongs and a milk or cream jug, all decorated in sequence with geometric friezes and bearing the initials "AS" interlaced. The coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl have a truncated cone-shaped body topped by a cylindrical belt on a truncated cone-shaped pedestal. The handles are vertical, with a circular medallion at mid-height. The basket with mobile handle is of the same construction, but elliptical in cross-section. The fretel of the sugar bowl and coffee pot is a stylized flower with five fan-shaped petals. Tray hallmarks: 84, Saint Petersburg 1874, assayer "П-К" (Pavel Andreevitch Kostytch) and silversmith "НН" (Henrik Hacklin). Sugar tong hallmarks: 84, St. Petersburg 1877, assayer "М-Д" (Mikhail Orestovich Dolgoplov) and silversmith "ЛС" (not listed?). Hallmarks on other pieces: 84, Saint Petersburg 1877, assayer "И-Е" (Ivan Vonifatievitch Evsigueneev) and silversmith "J.?" (unidentified hallmark). Tray dimensions: 53.6 x 35.8 cm; weight: 1695 g Basket dimensions: 25 x 18 cm; height: 7.6 cm (without handle); weight: 591 g Coffee pot height: 18.1 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm; weight: 553 g Sugar bowl height: 14.3 cm; diameter: 10 cm; weight: 336 g Height of milk jug: 9.2 cm; diameter: 7.5 cm; weight: 154 g Length of sugar tongs: 13.5 cm; weight: 46g In its leather-covered wooden case with brass spandrels. 58.5 x 15 x 40.5 cm [RUSSIAN ART]