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Victorian Butter Knife

Victorian Gold and Mother of Pearl Handled Butter Knife
By George Unite & Sons
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
antique Victorian 9-karat gold butter knife has a sabre style knife blade, with a broad incurved shaped
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Antique 1890s English Victorian Knife Boxes

Materials

Gold

Gorham Sterling Silver Butter Knife & Spoon, Versailles Pattern
By Gorham
Located in East Geelong, VIC
, which was introduced in 1888. The butter knife, or possibly a pickle knife, is 165 mm (6.5 inches) in
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Antique 1890s American Victorian Serving Pieces

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Sterling Silver

D&J Welby Sterling Silver Flatware Set 6 Forks and 1 Butter Knife London 1911
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
D&J Welby Sterling Silver Flatware Set 6 Forks and 1 Butter Knife London 1911 Six Forks and one
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Early 20th Century British Victorian Flatware and Serving Pieces

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Canteen of Cutlery for Twenty-Four Persons
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
fork 7 Salt spoons Sugar tongs Butter knife Sugar sifter This exceptional service benefits from an
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Antique 1850s British Victorian Serving Pieces

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Sterling Silver

American Victorian by Lunt Sterling Silver Flatware Set Eight Service 47 Pieces
By Lunt Silver
Located in Big Bend, WI
handle master butter knife, 6 3/4", one cake server w/stainless blade, 9 3/4", one sugar tong, 4 1/4
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20th Century Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

American Victorian by Lunt Sterling Silver Flatware Set of 8Service 47 Piece
By Lunt Silver
Located in Big Bend, WI
hollow handle master butter knife, 6 3/4". One cake server w/stainless blade, 9 3/4". One sugar tong, 4 1
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Mid-20th Century Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

Modern Victorian by Lunt Sterling Silver Flatware Service for 8 Set 63 Pc Dinner
By Lunt Silver
Located in Big Bend, WI
", one cold meat fork, 7 1/2", one sugar spoon, 5 7/8", one hollow handle master butter knife, 6 3/4
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20th Century Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

Memory Lane by Lunt Sterling Silver Flatware Set, 8 Place Setting
By Lunt Silver
Located in Dallas, TX
place setting plus serving utensils. Pieces included: New French Hollow Knife, Fork, Individual Salad
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20th Century Victorian Flatware and Serving Pieces

Set hand-forged Fiddle Thread & Shell silver cutlery for 12
By Holland, Aldwinckle, & Slater
Located in London, GB
spoon 1 butter knife Antique knives rarely survive so this Fiddle Thread and Shell silver flatware
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Antique 19th Century British Victorian Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

68 Pc Towle Sterling Silver 925 Madeira Flatware & Chest Monogram K
By Towle Silversmiths
Located in Dayton, OH
Forks - 6.5” x 1” - 38.6 g / 8 Soup Spoons - 6.375” x 1.75” - 38.1 g / Butter Knife - 6.75” x 0.75
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Vintage 1940s Victorian Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

Silver Gilt Hors d'oeuvres Set
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This good quality silver gilt hors d'oeuvres set consists of a sardine fork, a butter knife, a pate
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Antique 1890s Belgian High Victorian Tableware

Materials

Silver

Silver Gilt Hors d'oeuvres Set
Silver Gilt Hors d'oeuvres Set
H 0.63 in W 7 in D 1.75 in
19th Century English Queen Pattern Sterling Silver 112 Piece Flatware Set for 12
By Aldwinckle & Slater
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A wonderful, large, Late Victorian sterling silver flatware set in the Queens pattern. This large
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Antique Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Flatware and Serving Pi...

Materials

Sterling Silver

19th Century English Coromandle Canteen Service by Walker & Hall
Located in Dublin, IE
forks, 22 teaspoons, 2 egg spoons, a sugar spoon and butter knife, 18 dessert spoons, 3 salt spoons, 3
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Antique 19th Century English Victorian Tableware

Materials

Silver Plate

Antique Fish Flatware Set, Sterling Silver with Mother-of-pearl, Set of 18
Located in Van Nuys, CA
3/8" T Six butter knife = 5-7/8" L X 5/8" W X 1/4" T.
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Vintage 1930s American Victorian Sterling Silver

Materials

Silver, Stainless Steel

Old Atlanta by Wallace Sterling Silver Flatware Set for 12 Service 113 pieces
By Wallace Silversmiths
Located in Big Bend, WI
Master Butter Knife, 6 7/8" 1 Jelly Server, 6 1/4" 1 Cheese Server w/stainless blade, 7" Includes bonus
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20th Century Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

Old Master by Towle Sterling Silver Flatware Set For 8 Service 37 Pieces
By Towle Silversmiths
Located in Big Bend, WI
3/4" 1 serving spoon, 8 1/2" 1 sugar spoon, 5 3/4" 1 hollow handle master butter knife, 6 3/4" 1
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20th Century Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

Art Deco Nude – 14-08-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
delay and lo and behold, I cut to the chase like a knife through butter. Solutions for Hardnesses
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2010s Cubist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Elegante by Reed & Barton Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 245 Pieces
By Reed & Barton
Located in Big Bend, WI
". 12 knives, 9". 32 forks, 7". 24 teaspoons, 5 3/4". 12 place soup spoons, 7". 12 butter spreaders
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Antique Early 1900s Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

San Lorenzo, Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Flatware Set 340 Pcs in Fitted Chest
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Big Bend, WI
with Victorian, Edwardian or neoclassical styles. Outstanding San Lorenzo by Tiffany & Co. sterling
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20th Century Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

Old Master by Towle Sterling Silver Flatware Set for 8 Service 73 Pieces
By Towle Silversmiths
Located in Big Bend, WI
Master Butter Knife, 6 7/8" 1 Pie Server w/stainless blade, 10 3/8" 1 Nut Spoon, 5 1/2" 1 Jelly Server, 6
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Vintage 1940s Early Victorian Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

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large bamboo pair of table lamps with brass bases. Beautiful and chic table lamps. Lovely brass bases and bamboo tops held by brass top.
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Extensive Assembled Meissen Blue and White Bird Model Dinner Service, circa 1890
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By Harrods Ltd (Richard Woodman Burbridge)
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One-Off Winsor & Newton Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Sterling Silver 1977 Artist Box
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Olliver St. John Gogarty
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
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Georg Jensen 1940 Alphonse La Paglia Retro Brooch Model 135 In Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
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Hermes Paris 1990 Clic Clac Bangle Bracelet In .925 Sterling Silver With Enamel
By Hermès
Located in Miami, FL
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Antique Signed Oil Tavern Cook Plucking Bird Flirting with Cavalier, Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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Barons Delaware Boston Joined Chest of Drawers, US American Colonial
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Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Walnut

Acanthus by Mappin & Webb Silverplated Flatware Set Service Dinner 328 Pieces
By Mappin & Webb
Located in Big Bend, WI
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Antique Late 19th Century Tableware

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Silver Plate

Mappin & Webb Cutlery Set for 12 People. England, Early 20th Century
By Mappin & Webb
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Mappin & Webb silver plate cutlery set for 12 people, England, early 20th century. Complete for 12 people. A total of 130 pieces: 12 large knifes, 12 large forks and 12 large spoon...
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Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Sheffield and Silverplate

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Silver Plate

Rare Princess Diana's Althorp Estate Living History Collection Library Bookcase
By Theodore Alexander, Brights of Nettlebed
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We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare, now discontinued, Thomas Chippendale Library bookcase which is an exact authorised copy of one from Princess’s Diana’s family home,...
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20th Century English Chippendale Bookcases

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Victorian Sterling Silver Bacchanalian Pattern Butter Knife, London, 1869
By H.J. Lias & Son
Located in London, GB
Highly decorative Victorian sterling silver Bacchanalian pattern butter knife. Makers: Lias
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Victorian Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

Victorian Sterling Silver Butter Knife by Francis Higgins. London, 1855
By Francis Higgins
Located in London, GB
Very attractive Victorian sterling silver butter knife. Maker: Francis Higgins. London, 1855
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Antique 1850s English Victorian Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

Victorian Silver Gilt Child's Set by Francis Higgins, London, 1868
By Francis Higgins
Located in London, GB
alternative uses for this set, the knife would make an excellent butter knife and the fork and spoon would
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Antique 1860s English Victorian Tableware

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Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver Butter Knife in a Presentation Case London Hallmarked for 1886
By Henry Atkins
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A sterling silver butter knife in a presentation case, London, hallmarked 1886, makers mark HA for
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Antique 1880s English Victorian Sterling Silver

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Sterling Silver

Tiffany Chrysanthemum Knife - World's Fair - Columbian Exposition - 1893
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver serving master butter in Chrysanthemum pattern. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York
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Antique Late 19th Century American Victorian Flatware and Serving Pieces

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Sterling Silver

Incredible Antique Folding Fruit Knife Collection, 18th-20th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
peeler and another with a butter knife blade. 11 of the folding knives have none mother-of-pearl handles
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Antique 19th Century English Early Victorian Sterling Silver

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Silver

Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Canteen of Cutlery
By Chawner & Co.
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Antique 1880s British Victorian Tableware

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Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver Canteen of Cutlery for 12 Persons, Antique Victorian
By Holland, Aldwinckle, & Slater
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Antique 1890s English Victorian Tableware

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Silver, Sterling Silver

Early Victorian 6 Place Silver Kings Pattern Canteen by George Adams
By George Adams
Located in Cornwall, GB
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Antique 1850s English Early Victorian Tableware

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20th Century American Victorian Flatware and Serving Pieces

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International Silver Co Deep Silver Inlaid Countess Flatware Set Svc 12-89 Pcs
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Serving Pieces

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By William Eaton
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Antique 1840s British Victorian Sterling Silver

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Orchies French Majolica Pottery Cat Head Figural Penny Bank
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By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New Orleans, LA
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Tiffany & Co. Chrysanthemum Flatware Set, Service for 12
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New Orleans, LA
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Tiffany & Co. Silver Chrysanthemum Flatware Service, 207 Pieces
Located in New Orleans, LA
ladle 1 jelly spoon 1 master butter knife 1 sugar spoon 1 gold cheese scoop 1 gold ice
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By Martin, Hall & Co. Ltd.
Located in London, London
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Antique 1890s English Victorian Sterling Silver

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Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine antique Bailey & Co. sterling silver butter knife. It has a twist handle, very thick
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Located in Umberleigh, Devon
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Wonderful French School Oil on Board of a Waiter Serving a Lobster, circa 1890
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Victorian Butter Knife For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic victorian butter knife available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of metal, silver and sterling silver, every victorian butter knife was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer victorian butter knife, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A victorian butter knife, designed in the Victorian or mid-century modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. Many designers have produced at least one well-made victorian butter knife over the years, but those crafted by Lunt Silver, Towle Silversmiths and Gorham are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Victorian Butter Knife?

The average selling price for a victorian butter knife at 1stDibs is $3,000, while they’re typically $225 on the low end and $124,500 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right dining-entertaining for You

Your dining room table is a place where stories are shared and personalities shine — why not treat yourself and your guests to the finest antique and vintage glass, silver, ceramics and serveware for your meals?

Just like the people who sit around your table, your serveware has its own stories and will help you create new memories with your friends and loved ones. From ceramic pottery to glass vases, set your table with serving pieces that add even more personality, color and texture to your dining experience.

Invite serveware from around the world to join your table settings. For special occasions, dress up your plates with a striking Imari charger from 19th-century Japan or incorporate Richard Ginori’s Italian porcelain plates into your dining experience. Celebrate the English ritual of afternoon tea with a Japanese tea set and an antique Victorian kettle. No matter how big or small your dining area is, there is room for the stories of many cultures and varied histories, and there are plenty of ways to add pizzazz to your meals.

Add different textures and colors to your table with dinner plates and pitchers of ceramic and silver or a porcelain lidded tureen, a serving dish with side handles that is often used for soups. Although porcelain and ceramic are both made in a kiln, porcelain is made with more refined clay and is more durable than ceramic because it is denser. The latter is ideal for statement pieces — your tall mid-century modern ceramic vase is a guaranteed conversation starter. And while your earthenware or stoneware is maybe better suited to everyday lunches as opposed to the fine bone china you’ve reserved for a holiday meal, handcrafted studio pottery coffee mugs can still be a rich expression of your personal style.

“My motto is ‘Have fun with it,’” says author and celebrated hostess Stephanie Booth Shafran. “It’s yin and yang, high and low, Crate & Barrel with Christofle silver. I like to mix it up — sometimes in the dining room, sometimes on the kitchen banquette, sometimes in the loggia. It transports your guests and makes them feel more comfortable and relaxed.”

Introduce elegance at supper with silver, such as a platter from celebrated Massachusetts silversmith manufacturer Reed and Barton or a regal copper-finish flatware set designed by International Silver Company, another New England company that was incorporated in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1898. By then, Meriden had already earned the nickname “Silver City” for its position as a major hub of silver manufacturing.

At the bar, try a vintage wine cooler to keep bottles cool before serving or an Art Deco decanter and whiskey set for after-dinner drinks — there are many possibilities and no wrong answers for tableware, barware and serveware. Explore an expansive collection of antique and vintage glass, ceramics, silver and serveware today on 1stDibs.

Questions About Victorian Butter Knife
  • 1stDibs ExpertOctober 19, 2021
    A butter knife is also known as a butter spreader. A butter knife is any quasi-table knife with a dull edge and rounded point. Shop a range of vintage butter knives and other flatware on 1stDibs.

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