Ercuis cutlery in Couverts Luxe - from Calypso Bleu to Insolent

These luxury cutleries are

memories to cutleries of the outgoing Renaissance: the forks have three prongs and the blade of knife is sweeped out widely. All front parts are in pure sterling silver, of course except the knives which have a blade of steel.

Both models Calypso and Insolent

process quite filigree the silver around a colored core. A tender netting of open-worked silver is laid around the colored core which forms the handle part of these patterns. And a special extravagance is that the cutleries of Ercuis Insolent have precisely the same pattern like the exclusive series Salamanque and Tolede of Raynaud, which repeat the same decoration on the Porcelain and complement very well these extraordinary cutleries. The series Conde and Medicis enclose noble wood or with Medicis semiprecious stones, in both cases in different cuts and skilfully enclosed in Sterling Silver.

With all exclusivity this cutlery

in the use of forms of the outgoing Renaissance is refreshing up-todate in the color and material-combinations made by Ercuis .

sterling silver

Silver is the first metal of which cutleries were made of and the material has the reputation to possess bactericidal qualities. A sterling cutlery of massive silver is even after decades an object of great value. Depending on the execution real silver objects are not made out of pure silver, but material silver (Ag) are mixed with copper (Cu). The proportionate mass of this alloy is specified in thousandth. So the 800th silver contains 80% of silver and 20% of copper, the 925th silver – also called Sterling Silver – 7.5% of copper and so on. Therefore, the color of the silver also differs slightly, depending to the percentage of copper in the alloy. Mainly for optical reasons massive silver is galvanized often with a layer of pure silver. Silver is marked with the punch which refers to the punch law of the country of origin. In Germany the imperial crown and the half moon has to be beside the brand of the manufacturer together with the thousandth number as a token for the real silver. In France, however, the head of Minerva in an octagon beside the punch of the manufacture is the juridically correct sign.

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