A Mahogany Canteen of Silver Plated Cutlery - 231-pieces/12-pax. - Point Fillet - Gero, Gerritsen Zeist - 1940's.

An original 1940's solid mahogany canteen of silver plated cutlery. The set contained within the 5 drawers consists of no less than 231 silver plated pieces in the Point Fillet pattern. This canteen was the largest canteen sold by Gero at the time (the last picture shows this canteen in the Gero catalog of January 1940).

Consisting of;

Drawer 1:
- 6 dinner spoons
- 6 dinner knives
- 6 dinner forks
- 6 knife rests
- 6 dessert/breakfast spoons
- 6 dessert/breakfast knives
- 6 dessert/breakfast forks
- 6 fish forks
- 6 fish knives
- Carving set

Drawer 2:
- 6 dinner spoons
- 6 dinner knives
- 6 dinner forks
- 6 knife rests
- 6 dessert/breakfast spoons
​- 6 dessert/breakfast knives
- 6 dessert/breakfast forks
- 6 fish forks
- 6 fish knives
- Bread saw
- Knife sharpener

Drawer 3:
- 12 teaspoons
- 12 pastry forks
- 12 cold meat serving forks
- 6 fruit forks
- 6 fruit knives
- 3 sugar scoops
 - 2 salt scoops
- Custard spoon
- Cake server
- Butter knife
- Cheese slicer
- Cheese knife

Drawer 4:
- 12 mocca spoons
- 6 fruit forks
- 6 fruit knives (Sola 100, model Pearl edge)
- 7 avocado spoons
- 5 ice cream scoops
- 3 cold meat serving forks
- 2 jam spoons
- Openwork fish scoop (unsilvered)
- 2 compote spoons
- Potato spoon
- Large meat fork
- Meat fork
- 2 salt scoops

Drawer 5:
- Ladle
- 2 gravy spoons
- 2 vegetable spoons
- 2 meat forks
- Rice Spoon
- Potato Spoon
- Salad servers (spoon+fork)
- Cake server (Gero Zilmeta)

The cutlery is in good, only slightly used condition. Some microscratching present, some knives with small pits in the handles, Please refer to the pictures for an impression, or contact us for a more specified report. 

All pieces are marked on the back with [Letter][Gero][90][G-Z] for Gerritsen-Zeist.

Please note that due to the object's weight, special transport might be required. Please contact us for a quote.