Amboss Stainless Steel Cutlery Set by Oswald Haerdtl
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A substantial Amboss (Austria) stainless steel cutlery set, principally a ten-place setting excluding fish knives and forks (eight each), nine teaspoons and six serving spoons, plus approximately thirty additional utensils. This pattern 2050 designed by Oswald Haerdtl. Oswald Haerdtl was An important Austrian architect and whose designs have been shown and are in many major Museum collections, including the Museum of modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian design Museum. In the early 1950s Hans Malzacher bought the Amboss Neuzeughammer Company and recruited architects and designers such as Haerdtl and Carl Aubock to produce flatware designs for it.
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- Flatware - An alternative name for items of cutlery, principally knives, forks and spoons, now generally used to describe sets of these implements. Nowadays it is mostly used when describing cutlery made of silver and silver plate.
It is less frequently used to describe all "flat' items of tableware, so that as well as cutlery the definition includes plates. - Important - Important is a word used in the antique trade to indicate an object should be ranked above other similar objects, and is therefore more valuable.
The object could be considered important because it is by a famous designer or maker, has been shown at a major exhibition, is of exquisite workmanship, is rare or is a "one-off", was made for an important patron, and so on.
Even further up the pecking order are objects that are described in catalogue descriptions as highly important or extraordinarily important.
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