A rare American Modernistic Middletown Silver Company silver-plated nickel three piece coffee set designed by Elwood North Cornell, comprising coffee pot and hinged-cover, sugar basin and cover and milk-jug, faceted triangular sides, stamped factory marks to base, 22cm. high, (4) Literature Jewelers' Circular May 19th 1928 page 10 for a full page advertisement by the Middleton Silver Company for the Modernistic pattern coffee service. The patent for this design (US no.80527) was applied for on the 24th January 1928 and awarded January 7th 1930. Jewel Stern Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, New Haven page 28-30 for a comparable cubistic Lights and Shadows of Manhattan coffee service designed by Erik Magnussen. 20th Century Design Sotheby's New York 18th December 2013 lot 138 for an identical three piece set on a tray, believed to be the only other example of this set.