Featured Silver cutlery

Hello,
I've got this cutlery from a neighbor who had it in his attic.
Could anyone provide more information about it?
I've done some inquiry and it seems the stamp is of Lutz & Weiß GmbH - Pforzheim from Germany.

 

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Done. Thanks for the notice.

 

Ah, that's better!. Hopefully someone will be along shortly who can help. Members are all over the world so you may get answers at all times if the day or night.

 

If they're German, the handles are probably silverplate, possibly over a resin or cement core. One of the marks looks like it might be 80, which would be silverplated metal.

edit: Oops, I'm blind. I see the second 0 now. Disregard this comment please.

 

Can maybe see 800 but it’s not easy to see much. Have you got any silver cleaner?

 

OP has the maker, Lutz & Weiss, they're marked as .800 silver, would guess by pattern, they date to the early 20th century. Is the *pap spoon marked?

*edit* Looking again at size and apparent depth of the bowl, more likely a sauce ladle...

~Cheryl

 

Cheryl - do you know when New French blades were first used?

 

No idea, but oh @MrNate ! Paging MrNate! The fork design does point to circa 1900 or maybe earlier, at least from what I can recall. I just tagged in an expert.

 

On American silver, the blunt French style was in use in the early 20th century, and the slender French style started showing up on some patterns in the '20s, and were pretty much standard by the mid '30s. On German silver, would expect them to be earlier, since they were common on French silver in the early 1900s...


This set, on eBay Germany, looks to be the same pattern, the blades are stainless steel, and though available a bit earlier, it didn't come into wide use until after WWI: https://www.ebay.de/itm/Lutz-Weiss-...275661?hash=item3fdf2e088d:g:YgAAAOSwK9heEzj1


French, from the 1911 Ercuis catalog:




~Cheryl

 

JMHO. in continental Europe hard to sell. too bourgeois, too simple timid everyday use.
they made stuff under the influence of the Darmstadt Jugendstil colony that still kept its attraction and pays good money.