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What does 90 mean on silver flatware?
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On silver flatware, 90 typically means that the utensils feature silver plate. This means that their primary material is copper, pewter, nickel or another metal covered with a thin layer of real silver. On 1stDibs, find a variety of silver flatware.
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Art Nouveau Silver Coffee & Tea Set, Bruckmann & Sons for Fritz Loch, Germany
By Bruckmann & Söhne
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent Art Nouveau silver coffee and tea set consisting of 6 pieces: coffee pot, teapot, hot water kettle with rechaud and burner, sugar bowl, cream jug and tray.
Bulbous, raised ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Déco Silver Cutlery Set For 12 People In Showcase by Bruckmann &Sons Germany
By Bruckmann & Söhne
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant cutlery set made of solid silver for twelve people, consisting of 140 parts, in wooden showcase.
Date of manufactory: around 1920
Material: massive 800 silver + steel blades
Form type: Simple, elegant design with curved handle ends with surrounding thread.
Wooden Showcase:
This silver cutlery set is kept in a sleek, glazed wooden showcase. Display window on the top, from the front the four drawers, which are perfectly equipped on the inside, can be opened with the button-shaped brass handles.
The showcase stands on four small feet, the wooden surfaces ore shellac hand-polished.
140 Pieces:
1st drawer: 12 mocha spoons / 12 coffee spoons / 1 butter knife / 1 cheese knife / 2 salad servers / 1 sardine server / 1 soup ladle / 2 serving spoons / 1 bowl scoop
2nd drawer: 12 soup spoons / 12 dessert spoons / 1 sauce ladle / 1 meat server / 2 cake lifters / 1 butter/porridge scraper
3rd drawer: 12 starter forks / 12 dinner forks / 12 starter knives / 12 dinner knives / 1 serving fork
4th drawer: 12 dessert forks / 6 fish...
Category
Vintage 1920s German Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière With Glass Insert, Bruckmann & Sons, Germany, 1900
By Bruckmann & Söhne
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant, festive silver vessel with a wide oval vertical wall standing on four feet attached to the lower rim, central cartouches on the front and back, supported by a surrounding, relief and openwork flower and leaf interlacing, slightly curved upper edge, two handles attached to the sides in the form of wavy ribbons pulled...
Category
Antique Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pair of Etched Glass and Silver Pitchers by Bruckmann & Söhne
By Bruckmann & Söhne
Located in London, GB
Pair of etched glass and silver pitchers by Bruckmann & Söhne
German, circa 1900
Measures: Height 33cm, width 17cm, depth 14cm
The pitchers, or claret jugs, in this pair by Bruc...
Category
Antique Early 1900s German Rococo Glass
Materials
Silver
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière With Cut Glass Liner, By Bruckmann & Sons, Germany
By Bruckmann & Söhne
Located in Vienna, AT
Representative elegant silver jardinière in an elliptical basic shape, standing flush on a stepped lower edge, outwardly curved wall divided into segments by pilasters, regular verti...
Category
Antique Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pair Of Silver Centerpieces With Glass Bowls, Bruckmann & Sons for Knewitz c1920
By Bruckmann & Söhne
Located in Vienna, AT
Two elegant silver centerpieces on a three-pass base with delicate embossed decoration and three winged lion figures supporting the richly ornamented and pierced insert for the proje...
Category
Vintage 1910s German Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver


