This is a complete service for six including:
6 dinner forks, 7 3/8" long
6 salad or dessert forks, 6 5/8" long
6 teaspoons, 6" long
6 round bowl cream soup spoons, 6 1/2" long
6 puffy handle butter knives, 6 1/4" long
6 dinner knives (puffy or hollow handle, stainless blades), 9 1/8" long

I would say these are in excellent condition, if not absolutely pristine then very nearly so, only the mildest tarnish still to polish away and no real wear to speak of. (The set was gifted to me and I believe we used it three times in all those years so almost as new, particularly for flatware well on its way to becoming antique by now.) The interesting round wooden case, however, has seen far better days, the top in particular, so these will ship securely wrapped in baggies in a box as the chest is very large, unduly heavy, and isn't original to this set anyway. (It was only wood veneer, gave its life protecting this set, but did its job well for decades, no scratches, only minimal tarnish, etc.)

Photography was surprisingly difficult but this sale is for these particular 30 pieces pictured, all of which are in excellent shape, any odd blobs or dark spots being reflections of the camera or unrelated objects. (In the end my granddaughter figured out how to prevent a lot of that by putting them in a white box made of poster board with the camera phone on a stick. If anyone wants other photos, I have many more, but they're frankly bad.) I think the strong taper of the forks' tines here is unusually appealing, very sharp tips, which makes a difference in utility. The soup spoons aren't a typical oval bowl form, but wider and rounded (1 1/2" x 2"), making them look more like what some silver patterns consider chowder or bouillon spoons. The combined proportions of each place setting are pleasing, they look good on the table.

It's just my opinion but I feel Tranquility is among the best flatware designs of the 20th century, both functionally and aesthetically, and also among the few that can accurately be called classic or timeless. The lines are clean, the taper is balanced and elegant, and the slightly rounded edges at the bevel keep it from being sharp or overly harsh. (Maybe I'm crazy to notice these things, but I feel the weight and contour of the pieces in the hand really matters in flatware.) Compare Tranquility with something like International's Serenity from 1940, very similar in shape, yes, but the fussy, extraneous floral edges mar the form. Or it can go too far in the opposite direction, e.g., the 1934 Lunt Modern Classic pattern, similar fluted edge, but far too blunt, flat, and square, it looks and feels coarse compared to Tranquility (which is why I got rid of the Lunt decades ago, but kept and 'hoarded' the Tranquility, because I feel it's an example of truly good design). I would say Tranquility is preferable to the later 50s overtly modernist designs, too, where the handles remained minimalist but the shapes of spoon bowls and/or knife blades became intentionally distorted in a way that seemed to be trying too hard. (I thought this in the 1950s and still do. It was a fad that many adopted, leading to countless distracted dinner parties where everyone struggled to eat with semi-triangular spoons and near-useless 2" oval knife blades.)

In any case, I would call this Art Deco more so than Mid-century Modern, and from it you can almost see the transition through Streamline Moderne to what would become associated with 50s modernism via Danish Modern, etc. But the germ of the idea was well established in the 1930s and 40s, which we can sort of see here, the Tranquility pattern actually being an earlier design than the usually stated date of 1947. (In fact Google shows us Lillian V.M. Helander applying for a design patent for it in late 1944 and it being granted to her (and International Sterling) in 1945, see photo 9. She had improved upon and perfected her 1940 Serenity, I would say. I also like that a woman got credit for her design, which was really something in the 1940s.) It has an almost soaring, architectural look about it, especially compared to most (I think too-busy) designs for silverware.

The other interesting element to this, and it may just be my association, is that Fine Arts Sterling Silver Company was originally a Philadelphia company (they moved I think to Jenkintown in later years), and in the 1940s they were in the famous Art Deco PSFS Building, right near the old Reading Railroad Terminal and a block from City Hall. That building was among the first of the skyscraper designs (built 1929 I think), a notable building in its day with the ground floor nothing if not Art Moderne. (It became famous for the massive red PSFS sign at the top, visible from all over the city, but the interior was truly beautiful, potted plants and fine marble, wrap-around counters in unique types of wood, etc., some of which has fortunately been preserved by Loews Hotel, which now occupies 12 South 12th Street, once the site of Fine Arts Sterling Co. back in the 40s, when they also offered fine china under the same name and logo.) Anyway, Fine Arts only made a handful of silver patterns, generally designs patented via International, but of them I think Tranquility was by far the pinnacle. It's surely discontinued now, as Fine Arts passed into eternity when its founder did (Jerry Ashland, in the early 1970s), but it seems "Replacements Ltd." still has some surviving pieces. This is good as I honestly doubt anyone will ever improve on the aesthetics of Tranquility for elegant multi-purpose sterling flatware.

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