French Art Deco Canteen Of Silver Plate Cutlery

French Art Deco Canteen of Silver Plate Cutlery
A French Art Deco canteen of 95 pieces of cutlery, produced in France in the 1920’s, having three lockable drawers, standing on a double u uprights and stylish base the ball shaped pulls are nickel plated whilst the key is silver plated, the lower lock locks all three drawers when closed.

Inside the canteen it has flatware for 12 people to dine, consisting of 12 knives, 12 starter knives 12 forks, 12 starter forks, 12 spoons, 12 smaller spoons and 12 tea spoons, in the lower drawer there is a large ladle serving spoon, carving knife and meat fork salad servers and ham bone clamp these are all matching to the set, additionally there are salad servers, sugar sifter and sugar tongs

The set is silver plate by Dauphin, each stamped with hallmark of the weight of silver used to plate 24 of these items, for example the larger fork has 90 stamped to it so 90grams of silver used to plate 24 forks so very heavy silver content in this set The cabinet has been fully restored and professionally polished by hand and Is in excellent condition throughout

Age: 1925

Style: French Art Deco

Origin : France

Material: Walnut, silver plate

Condition: Excellent

Restoration: Fully polished cabinet

Dimensions: 84h x 64w x 40d cm