EXTRAORDINARY  SILVERPLATE

FLATWARE SET ART NOUVEAU STYLE BY

Józef Fraget, Warsaw PATTERN 2401 of Peter Bruckmann & Sons DESIGN

DESIGNED FOR THE 1900 WORLD FAIR EXHIBITION IN PARIS

FOR 8 PEOPLE

EXCELLENT CONDITIONS

LOVELY ART NOUVEAU DESIGN!!!!!

LOVELY  FLATWARE SET MADE BY JOZEF FRAGET, WARSAW, PATTERN 2401 DESIGNER BY PETER BRUCKMAN & SONS.

DESIGNED  FOR THE 1900  WORLD FAIR EXHIBITION IN PARIS.

STAMPED WITH THE FRAGET MARKS: FRAGET MB PLAQUE. IN THE BLADES YOU CAN SEE THE FRAGET MARKS TOO.

ABOUT  FRAGET HISTORY

 The Fraget factory was founded by two French businessmen – the brothers Alphonse (Alfons) and Joseph (in Polish, Józef) Fraget in 1824. However, after 1841 Joseph Fraget became the sole owner of this company. In the fifties-sixties of the XIX century, the firm turned to the production of electroplated silver items and exported them mainly to the Russian market. The products of the Fraget firm soon turned out to be extremely popular. Since, any silver-plated item in the Russian Empire was called simply “fraget”. In 1967 Joseph Fraget died, and his business was inherited by his son Julian. In 1905, Julian was assassinated and from 1906 Fraget was managed by Julian’s daughter, Maria Antonina, who died in 1934. In 1939 with the start of World War II, the Fraget company stopped its activity.

The wellknown  WMF COMPANY BOUGHT THE FACTORY.

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The Norblin factory was founded in 1809 by the goldsmith Filip Vorbrodt, who came to Warsaw from the small Anhalt Principality in Germany. His daughter, Henriette Leopoldina Augusta, first married the French silversmith Jean Cerisy and then (after her husband’s death in 1831) another French jeweller Vincent (in Polish, Wincenty) Norblin, the son of Alexander Jean Norblin, owner of a bronze factory in Warsaw. Vincent Norblin (1805-1872) significantly increased the production of silver and bronze items and organized the silver plating. In 1865 he sold the factory to his son Ludwig (in Polish, Ludwig) Norblin (1/2 of the whole capital), daughter Albertina Wilhelmina (1/4 of the whole capital) and her husband A. Teodor Werner (1/4 of the whole capital), who was the owner of another silver foundry in Warsaw. After that, Ludwig Norblin and Teodor Werner united their factories in one large company NORBLIN i Ska (NORBLIN i Spó?ka), which means in English NORBLIN & Co. However, they continued to work separately, Ludwig Norblin was producing electroplated silver items, while Teodor Werner worked with sterling silver items. In 1872 Ludwig Norblin (1836-1914) bought a silver plate company from Buch Brothers. In 1893, he organized a new public company “Norblin, Buch Brothers & T. Werner”. Like Fraget, Norblin company also successfully survived World War I, but stopped production in 1939.
Below, I am presenting silver plate marks of Fraget and Norblin factories, issued in the XIX - XX centuries.

At the end of the XIX century most of the Russian silver plate production was concentrated in Poland, and about ten foundries producing silver plate were operating in Warsaw. Among them the most interesting Art Nouveau objects were produced by “FRAGET” .

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The set is composed as follow:

.  8 dinner knives 9 1/2" WITH OXIDIZABLE BLADES - WITH THE J.FRAGET STAMP

. 8 dinner forks 8 5/8"

. 8 dinner spoons 8 1/2"

.8 dessert knives 8" 1/2 WITH OXIDIZABLE BLADES WITH J. FRAGET STAMP

.8 dessert forks  7 1/4"

.8 dessert spoons: 71/4"

.7 tea  or cake spoons 5 3/4"

.7 lunch , fruit or  cake  knives:6 1/4" with oxidizable blades with J. Fraget stamp

TOTAL: 62 PIECES

 SHIPPING COST TO USA.  Other countries please consult.

 BY FEDEX: u$s 70 .- It takes 5 to 7 business days  to arrive. .

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