American Sterling Silver Cruet Set with Box

• Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
• Cartouche - An ornamental panel in the form of of a shield, oval or rectangular scroll with curling edges. It may be carved into the back of a chair or the top of a sideboard, or present on a piece of silver or jewellery, and contain the initials of the original owner, heraldic symbols, or some other inscription, such as the details of a presentation.
  
  In ceramics the term defines the central area of a vase or similar with a decorative border in one of the shapes above, into which a decorative scene or figures have been painted.
• Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• American / United States silver - silver condiment and cruet sets 27
• cruet and condiment sets - silver items 478
• cruets and cruet sets - silver items 276
• Mauser Manufacturing Co. (United States) - silver, maker or retailer 2
• Melba, Dame Nellie (Australia) - property from the collection of Dame Nellie 141