Meanings
plural muffiniers
- alternativeAlternative spelling of muffineer.
CHINA, GLASS, CROCKERY - […] 9-piece hand-painted tea service; muffinier; ironstone tureens, […]
1988 May 21, “Public sale of personal property of items belonging to Ellen F. Sutliff, […]”, in Lancaster Farming, volume 33, number 28, Ephrata, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D39, column 12 more examples
RUSTOMJEE PESTONJEE will sell by Public Auction, on MONDAY, the 9th instant, at his Rooms, in Medow Street, the property of the late Captain Ord, 3rd Regt. N.I., comprising a Double Barrelled Gun, by Baker, Silver Tea and Sugar Pots, four pairs of Muffiniers, Spoons and Forks, &c., a pair of Plated Hotwater Curry Dishes, Waiters, Candlesticks, Dessert Knives and Forks, &c. &c., also, the Effects of several deceased persons.
1862 February 5, Rustomjee Pestonjee & Co., “Sale by Public Auction, by Order of the Administrator General”, in The Bombay Gazette and Indian Daily News, number 5,499 (New Series), Bombay: Bombay Gazette Press, →OCLC, page 4, column 5Muffinier, unidentified, lent by Mrs. William P. Hacker. […] The muffinier is engraved “S.R.M.”
1938, “English Silver”, in Mrs. Alfred Coxe Prime [i.e., Phoebe Phillips Prime], compiler, Three Centuries of Historic Silver […] (Fifth Publication of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Society, →OCLC, page 118
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