Orfevrerie Otto Wiskemann - Silver-plated Art Deco Cutlery Caneen - 101-piece/12-pax. - Belgium, 1940-1960

A beautiful silver plated canteen of cutlery from the years just after the war, made around 1950 by the Orfevrerie Otto Wiskemann ofBrussels. The three-drawer canteen contains a cutlery set of no less than 101 high-quality silver-plated pieces - including serving cutlery, cutlery for the starter, main course and desserts. The whole is suitable for 12 people and offers 8 different cutlery pieces for each table guest. All pieces decorated in typical Art Deco style, with sleek, sharp shapes. A nice detail are the geometrically designed lotus leaves at the top of the stems.

Consisting of:

- 12 dinner spoons
- 12 dinner knives
- 12 dinner forks
- 12 starter/lunch spoons
- 12 starter/lunch knives
- 12 appetizer/lunch forks
- 12 pastry forks
- 12 coffee spoons

Serving cutlery:
- Ladle
- Sauce ladle
- Pomme duchesse shovel
- Salad fork
- Salad spoon

The cutlery is in excellent condition for its age. There are some small scratches. The silver layer is completely intact and the luster is beautifully preserved. Please view the photos for an impression.

Marked under the tines of the forks and in the bowls of the spoons: [OW+][100]. The blades of the knives also bear the Wiskemann logo.

In 1872, Otto Leonard Wiskemann, descendant of a German family with a long history in silversmithing, started a workshop in the Rue des Longs Chariots in Brussels. In the years before that he had worked as an apprentice in Paris, where he learned the necessary tricks of the trade. He had also witnessed the introduction of electrolytic silver plating, introduced from England to continental Europe by Charles Christofle. Thanks to this experience and knowledge, Otto was able to start up a company in the 1870's that would later become the most famous silversmith in Belgium and a standard bearer of quality. The heyday was between the two World Wars. The company finally went under in the 1970's; a century of history of Belgian silversmithing came to an end.