Traveling set with glass beaker in case, 1777–79, German, Augsburg, Gilded silver, steel, glass, dyed and gold-tooled leather

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Traveling set with glass beaker in case, 1777–79, German, Augsburg, Gilded silver, steel, glass, dyed and gold-tooled leather, velvet, Length (Fork a): 7 7/8 in. (20 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Some members of Central and Southeastern European sovereign dynasties never traveled without their cutlery set. This seemed a strange habit to French courtiers, who, during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shared their knives at table

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