Lunt Silver Plate

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the lunt silver plate you’re looking for. Each lunt silver plate for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, silver and silver plate. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect lunt silver plate — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right lunt silver plate, those designed in Mid-Century Modern and Modern styles are of considerable interest. Many designers have produced at least one well-made lunt silver plate over the years, but those crafted by Lunt Silver and Oscar De La Renta are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

A lunt silver plate can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $485, while the lowest priced sells for $195 and the highest can go for as much as $3,600.

Founded in the early 20th century, Lunt Silversmiths became a celebrated domestic designer and producer of flatware, hollowware, serveware and giftware for generations, remaining in Lunt family hands for more than 100 years. It was the oldest continuously operating family-owned silver company in the United States.

Lunt Silversmiths was incorporated in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1902 as Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Company. The firm succeeded A. F. Towle & Son Co. — later Towle Silversmiths — purchasing its tools, machinery, trademarks and goodwill. Lunt was originally managed by George E. Rogers, president and major investor; George Colby Lunt, treasurer and general manager; and William Caldwell Bowlen, vice president and supervisor of manufacturing until his retirement in 1929. George C. Lunt and William C. Bowlen were both qualified members of the staff of the defunct Towle's factory.

On April 4, 1912, the founders of Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Company registered the manufacturer’s trademark at the federal level. In 1935 the company name was shortened to Lunt Silversmiths. In 1957 Lunt Silversmiths acquired King Silver Co. and its subsidiary Richard Dimes Company of South Boston, MA.

Lunt Silversmiths had in its inventory a wide array of flatware patterns such as Alexandra, American Directoire, Modern Victorian, Belle Meade, Carillon, Charles II, Chased Classic, Chatelaine, Colonial Manor, William and Mary, Contrast, Delacourt and many more. The United States government chose Lunt’s Embassy Scroll pattern (1981) as its official tableware in all U.S. embassies and consulates around the world.

In late 2009 Lunt sold its brand and inventory to Reed & Barton. The following year all remaining manufacturing and inventory assets at the Greenfield factory were sold at auction.

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(Biography provided by Schear Brothers)