A 67 piece Heilbronn silver cutlery set designed by Emil Lettré. Comprising six dinner and starter knives, forks and spoons, four fish spoons and forks, four cake forks, seven coffee and seven mocca spoons and six serving pieces. Marks of Bruckmann & Söhn - image-1

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A 67 piece Heilbronn silver cutlery set designed by Emil Lettré. Comprising six dinner and starter knives, forks and spoons, four fish spoons and forks, four cake forks, seven coffee and seven mocca spoons and six serving pieces. Marks of Bruckmann & Söhn

Auction 1047 - overview Cologne
02.05.2015, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 5.000 € - 5.500 €
Result: 5.208 € (incl. premium)
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A 67 piece Heilbronn silver cutlery set designed by Emil Lettré. Comprising six dinner and starter knives, forks and spoons, four fish spoons and forks, four cake forks, seven coffee and seven mocca spoons and six serving pieces. Marks of Bruckmann & Söhne, designed by Emil Lettré in 1931.

L of knives 22 cm, weight without knives ca. 2424 g.

The 1920s and 1930s were the most successful era in Emil Lettré's career and were spent in his elegant studio at Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Literature

Cf. cat.: Emil Lettré/Andreas Moritz, Zwei deutsche Silberschmiede im 20. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1976/77, no. 11, illus. 9; and cat.: Silber aus Heilbronn für die Welt, Heilbronn 2002, p. 94, illus. 19. Also illus. in: Amme, Historische Bestecke, Stuttgart 2002, no. 807.