Maître Brice Pescheteau-Badin
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Travel set, comprising an agate and silver knife and fork, w…
See original version (French)
301
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Travel set, comprising an agate and silver knife and fork, w…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
Travel set, comprising an agate and silver knife and fork, with a steel blade, in a stingray skin* case (restorations, damage, a later nut, rust)
Unidentified cutler’s mark,
Probably 17th-century Germany,
Gross weight: 73 g
*Specimen made from the dermis of a stingray (galuchat) of the Dasyatidae family, of the species known as the ‘pointed-nose stingray’* or, synonymously, the ‘white-spotted whipray’ (Maculabatis gerrardi)
*Species not regulated under the Washington Convention (CITES) or under EC Regulation 338/97 of 9 December 1996 and the French Environmental Code.
For similar agate and silver cutlery, see Amme, Jochen Bestecke: Die Egloffstein'sche Sammlung (15th–18th century) at the Wartburg? Arnoldschen, Stuttgart, Germany, 1994, pp. 84–85.
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