Traveling set with glass beaker in case 1777-79 Samuel Bardet German 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. However, in a time when a little deadly arsenic would go a long way if mixed with ones salt or spices, the Hungarian aristocracy had reason for their precaution; poisonings, especially by arsenic mixed with salt or spices, were not uncommon.Augsburg silversmiths were well-known for such cutlery sets. The beaker included here is engraved with a hunter and a huntress, suggesting that this traveling set was used during the hunting season.LiteratureEuropean Silver, Miniatures and Objects of Vertu. Sale cat., Christies, Geneva, May 10, 1988, p. 35, no. 75.ReferencesHelmut Seling. Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede, 1529-1868: Meister, Marken, Werke. New ed. Munich, 2007,

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Traveling set with glass beaker in case 1777-79 Samuel Bardet German 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. However, in a time when a little deadly arsenic would go a long way if mixed with ones salt or spices, the Hungarian aristocracy had reason for their precaution; poisonings, especially by arsenic mixed with salt or spices, were not uncommon.Augsburg silversmiths were well-known for such cutlery sets. The beaker included here is engraved with a hunter and a huntress, suggesting that this traveling set was used during the hunting season.LiteratureEuropean Silver, Miniatures and Objects of Vertu. Sale cat., Christies, Geneva, May 10, 1988, p. 35, no. 75.ReferencesHelmut Seling. Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede, 1529-1868: Meister, Marken, Werke. New ed. Munich, 2007,

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