Manufacturer: Franz Bahner, Düsseldorf, Germany
Designer: Gebhard Duve(1899-1977)
Description: An exceedingly good 1930's Art Deco solid silver flatware service, consisting of:
12 soup spoons, 12 dinner forks, 12 dinner knives, 12 fruit forks, 12 fruit knives and
12 desert/coffee spoons.
Elegant, simple form with hammer finish handles and rounded, stepped ends. Dinner and
fruit knives with stainless steel blades. With stylised Art Deco monogramme "GW".
800 silver value mark (800/1000).
A heavy set with great contemporary appeal and also an excellent museum piece investment.
Total weight 72 pieces: 5138gr., without knives 2666gr. (165.19, 85.71 troy oz.)
Country of
Manufacture: Germany
Date: 1930's
Marks: All pieces hallmarked with German "half-moon and crown", 800 silver- and maker's
mark
Condition: Excellent, with minimal age related wear.
Sizes: Dinner forks: 21cm(8.27"), Dinner knives: 25cm(9.84") Soup spoons 21.5cm(8.46")
Fruit forks: 18cm(7.09"), Fruit knives: 21cm(8.27") Desert/coffee spoons 13.5cm(5.31")
Other infor- This design is on display in the permanent exhibition at Bröhan Museum, Berlin State
mation: Museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism.
Ref. Bröhan K.H. "Metallkunst" Bröhan Museum Berlin, 1990, img. page 9, Nr. 11
Price: For half the set (36): USD 2'500
For the whole set(72): USD 4'500 Currency converter