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Case from Traveling Cutlery Set Case
This is a case. It is dated ca. 1730 and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is sharkskin, silver, wood. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from the historical overview in "Feeding Desire":
Early travel cases were originally just for knives, usually in pairs of different sizes, but began to invlude the fork as soon as it became generally acceptaed in each region. Such sets with cases are represented by examples in Cooper-Hewitt's collection from a variety of geographical locations, which include cases with various combinations of knives, forks, and/or spoons (figs. 45-48). Sometimes, the knives were carried separately, and folding forks and spoons, some of which used the same handle, traveled together ( fig. 49)
This object was
donated by
Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
It is credited The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D (overall case with cap): 10 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm (3 15/16 × 7/8 × 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
On top mount: [1] "DLF" in rectangle, impressed (unidentified cutler's mark)
Cite this object as
Case from Traveling Cutlery Set Case; Netherlands; sharkskin, silver, wood; L x W x D (overall case with cap): 10 × 2.2 × 1.3 cm (3 15/16 × 7/8 × 1/2 in.); The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg; 1985-103-139-a
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
