18th Century Material Culture

Cutlery

Cutlery Sets

Invitation Card
1782
(Lewis Walpole Library)

German Cutlery Set

c. 1600
(The British Museum)

French Knife
c. 1600
(Victoria & Albert)

English Knives by Arnold Smyth

Dated 1607
(Victoria & Albert)

English Wedding Table Knives

c. 1620
(The British Museum)

German Amber & Steell Cutlery Set

1634
(Victoria & Albert)

English Silver Gilt & Steel Knife

by William Boswell of London c. 1650 - 1670
(Victoria & Albert)

German Gilt and Rock Crystal Cutlery Set

Mid 17th Century
(Victoria & Albert)

Reads Cutlery Silver-hafted Cartridge Pattern Table Knife and Fork c. 1660 - 1690
Below: Reads Cutlery Silver - Hafted Cannon Dessert Knife and Fork c. 1690 - 1710
(Private Collection)

German Silver Cutlery Set

17th Century
(The British Museum)

Trousse Cuttlery Set

17th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

German Horn, Mother of Pearl & Steel Cutlery Set

17th Century
(Victoria & Albert)

English Silver Gilt Cutlery Set

c. 1670
(Victoria & Albert)

German Jasper, Silver & Steel Knife

c. 1670 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)

German Ivory,Silver Piqu & Steel Cutlery & Carving Set

1682
(Victoria & Albert)

European Gilt Silver & Steel Cutlery Set

by Peter Harache I 1682
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Sheeld Silver & Steel Cutlery Set with Shagreen Case
4th Quarter 17th Century
(Victoria & Albert)

GermanTraveling Cutlery Set

Late 17th Century
(Michael Backman)

GermanTraveling Cutlery Set

Late 17th Century
(Michael Backman)

Dutch Ivory, Silver & Steel CutlerySet

c. 1680 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)

English Ivory,Silver Piqu & Steel Cutlery Set

by Ephraim How of London 1698
(Victoria & Albert)

Dutch Ivory & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1700
(Victoria & Albert)

English Traveling Silver Cutlery Set in a Shagreen Case

c. 1700
(Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum)

Augsburg Traveling Cutlery Set

c. 1700
(Van Ham Auctioneers, Germany)

Dutch Bone, Silver & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1700 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)

French Tortoise Shell, Silver & Steel Cutlery Set with Leather Case
1702
(Victoria & Albert)

French Tortoise Shell, Silver & Steel Cutlery Set with Leather Case
1702
(Victoria & Albert)

English Silver Forks by Pierre Platel of London

1709
(The British Museum)

European Silver Dining Set

Early 18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

European Silver Cutlery Set

Early 18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

English Sheeld Agate & Steel Cutlery Set with Leather Case
Early 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)

Silver & Agate Dining Set

Early 18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

European Dining Set

Early 18th Century
(Private Collection)

Bone Handled Forks

Early 18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Silver & Mother of Pearl Dining Set

Early 18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

European Ivory & Steel Cutlery Set

Early 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)

English Wood, Glass Bead & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1720 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)

English or European Wood, Glass Bead & Steel Knife

c. 1720 - 1740
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English or European Wood, Glass Bead & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1720 - 1740
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English or European Wood, Glass Bead & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1720 - 1740
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Wood, Glass Bead & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1720 - 1740
(Cooper Hewitt -The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection)

Silver Campaign Dining Set in Shagreen Case

c. 1722
(Private Collection)

Silver Knife in Leather Sheath

Dated 1738
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

English Silver Cutlery Set

c. 1730
(Elliot & Grace Snyder)

Silver Cutlery Set

by Abraham Barboult c. 1740
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

French St. Cloud Cutlery Set

c. 1740 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)

English Jasper, Silver & Steel Knife

by Joseph Surtut of London c. 1640
(Victoria & Albert)

English Chelsea or Derby Porcelain, Silver & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1750 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)

English Staordshire Agateware & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1750 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)

English BowPorcelain & Steel Knife

c. 1756
(Victoria & Albert)

German Meissen Hard Paste Porcelain & Steel Knife

c. 1760
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Staordshire or Birmingham Enamel & Steel Cutlery Set

c. 1760 - 1780
(Victoria & Albert)

Traveling Cutlery Sets

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Trousee Cutlery Sets With Leather Cases

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Bone Hilted Knives

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

German or Dutch Stamped Brass & Steel Cutlery Set

Mid 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert Museum)

English Bow Porcelain Factory New Canton Cutlery Set

c. 1756 - 1760
(Museum of London)

English Worcester Porcelain Factory Silver Cutlery Set

c. 1770
(The British Museum)

English Sheeld Cutlery Sets

18th Century
(Private Collection)

Cutlery Sets
18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

European Cutlery Set

18th Century
(The British Museum)

English Sheeld Silver & Steel Cutlery Set

by Robert Trieket c. Late 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)

English Green Ivory & Steel Cutlery Set

Late 18th Century
(Cooper Hewitt -The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection)

TASTING
by John Nixon, Published by William Wells 1782
(The British Museum)

Tasting
by Henry Overton c. 1740 - 1764
(The British Museum)

Tasting
by Henry Overton c. 1740 - 1764
(The British Museum)

A CHOP - HOUSE.
by William Dickinson after William Bunbury 1781
(The British Museum)

A CHOP - HOUSE.
by William Dickinson after William Bunbury 1781
(The British Museum)

THE CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY

by William Dent 1783
(The British Museum)

German Flintlock Cutlery

18th Century
(Private Collection)

Sleeved
Cutlery Sets

Traveling Cutlery Sets

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Tortoise Shell Cutlery Set

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Table
Services

Pontypool Table Service with Chinoiserie Decoration

c. 1755 - 1760
(Collection of Sir Russell Wilkinson)

European Table Service

c. 1750
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Silver Cutlery Set in a Mahogany Table Service

c. 1775
(Victoria & Albert)

European Satinwood Table Service Box

c. 1770
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Folding Cutlery

European Folding Cutlery Set

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

German Folding Cutlery Set

18th Century
(Victoria & Albert Museum)

Folding Horn Cutlery Set

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Brass Folding Cutlery Sets

18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Folding Knife and Fork

Reported to be Left by the Hessian Army at the Battle of Germantown, Pennsylvania 1777
(Morristown National Historic Park)

18th Century Folding Knives

(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Folding Cutlery
18th Century
(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Table
Knives

Iron with Bone Handled Forks & Knife Recovered from Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Mid 18th Century
(Fort Ticonderoga)

Forks

Late 17th to 18th Century Forks

(Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Pewter Spoons & Iron with Bone Handled Forks Recovered from Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Mid 18th Century
(Fort Ticonderoga)

Iron Spoons & Forks Recovered from Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Mid 18th Century
(Fort Ticonderoga)

Spoons

Charles I and Latten Apostle Spoons

Most c. 1640
(Christies Auction House)

English Brass Spoon

c. 1670 - 1700
(New Hampshire Historical Society)

Silver Spoon
by Jeremiah Dummer (1645 - 1718)
Boston Massachusetts

Silver Spoon Depicting King George I

Recovered as part of the Archeological Dig Under Faneuil Hall, Boston
(City of Boston Archeology Program)

Silver Spoon Depicting King George I

Recovered as part of the Archeological Dig Under Faneuil Hall, Boston
(City of Boston Archeology Program)

Silver Spoon Depicting King George I

Recovered as part of the Archeological Dig Under Faneuil Hall, Boston
(City of Boston Archeology Program)

English Silver Spoon

by John Brooke of London c. 1711 - 1712
(Victoria & Albert)

Pair of Silver Spoons

by Zachariah Brigdon (1734 - 1787) of Boston

Pair of Silver Spoons

by Daniel Boyer (1725 - 1779) of Boston

Silver Spoon
by Paul Revere of Boston c. 1780
(Dana Linett)

Silver Spoon
by Paul Revere of Boston c. 1780
(Dana Linett)

New York Pewter Spoon

by John Bassett of New York City c. 1720 - 1781
(New Hampshire Historical Society)

Pewter Spoon
c. 1740 - 1780
(New Hampshire Historical Society)

Pewter Spoon Marked with its Owners Initials

Recovered from the Ruins of Fort Montgomery
From: Fisher, Charles L., ed.;
"The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands. An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site." New York State Museum

Pewter Spoons Marked with Their Owners Initials - Right Spoon w/ Makers Mark FB for Frederick Bassett
Recovered from the Ruins of Fort Montgomery
From: Fisher, Charles L., ed.;
"The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands. An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site." New York State Museum

Pewter Spoon with Deliberated Shortened Handle Found on the Brandywine Battlefield
Makers Mark of WB with Fleur-de-Lis for New York Pewterer William Bradford
(Courtesy Bob McDonald)

Pewter Spoon by William Bradford (1688 - 1759) of New York City

(Northeast Auction, William D. Carlebach Collection)

Spoons from the H.M.S. Invincible which Sank in 1758

(Maritime Archaeology Trust)

Wooden Spoons from the H.M.S. Invincible which Sank in 1758

(Maritime Archaeology Trust)

Wood Spoons that Were in the Concord, Massachusetts, Stores, April 1775
(The Concord Museum)

Wood Spoons that Were in the Concord, Massachusetts, Stores, April 1775
(The Concord Museum)

Wood Spoons that Were in the Concord, Massachusetts, Stores, April 1775
(The Concord Museum)

Portuguese Spoons in Shagreen English Boxes

4th Quarter 18th Century
(Van Nie Antiques)

Spoon Racks

English Oak Spoon Rack

c. 1770
(Christies Auction House)

Chip Decorated Captain Adrian Post Family, Bergen County, New Jersey, Spoon Rack
Anno 1737
(Keno Auctions)

Chip Decorated Bergen County, New Jersey, or Pennsylvanian Spoon Rack

18th Century
(Skinner Auction House)

Chip Decorated Bergen County, New Jersey, or Pennsylvanian Spoon Rack

18th Century
(Skinner Auction House)

Blue Painted Pine Spoon Rack

Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Private Collection)

Welsh Spoon Rack

c. 1770
(Christies Auction House)

Marrow
Spoons / Scoops

English Silver Marrow Scoop

by John Wingman of London c. 1748 - 1749
(Victoria & Albert)

Spoon Peddlers

London Cries: "Do You want any Spoons?"

Paul Sandby c. 1759
(Yale Center for British Art)

London Cries: "Do You want any Spoons?"

Paul Sandby c. 1759

Acknowledgements
The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center gratefully acknowledges Jim
Mullins for his guidance and generosity in sharing his cutting edge research on 18th
century knives. It is through friends like Jim that these slideshows can be made possible.

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