AH flatware identification

[Berghof]

Ladies/Gentlemen and others, I'm looking for help with identifying some AH silverware. The reason I ask is that I just translated a period silverware order form for the Eagles Nest...And there's so many specific pieces that were requested. This guy had a piece of flatware made for every kind of food available. Thanks!!

1. Butter knife, cheese knife, dinner table dagger??? I know it's not a fish knife, I know what those look like.



2. I've never seen a knife like this...anywhere. Is it a fruit knife? Crustaceans knife?



3. Serving fork - Is it a cake serving fork? Salad serving fork? or just a general Serving Fork?

[CARL]

1) Butter knife

2) Not sure...but I do know that orange knives (yes, they do exist!) have two different edges, with the upper edge serrated moreso than the lower...

3) Salad serving fork - Solingen produced very similar pieces

[Berghof]

Butter knife - I just found a picture of this butter knife...sorry for the blurred picture. Would it be possible to have two different styles?

[Erich S]

Nice not often seen AH formal pieces.

[Wagriff]

Cheese knife, would be my guess.

[Berghof]

Thank you Erich S. I have a few unique pieces. I'll be parting with some of the duplicates soon.

[duska]

[QUOTE=Berghof;1627149]Butter knife - I just found a picture of this butter knife...sorry for the blurred picture. Would it be possible to have two different styles?

I would say that looks more like a butter spreading knife.

[Erich S]

An impressive collection. I have about 9 pieces of the AH formal pattern in my small collection.

[tailor marc]

With AH stamped stuff what are the chances AH himself hold and dined with them or were these made for very close people around him too?

[Wagriff]

The AH Formal pattern was just that-made for formal occasions. Hitler was a Head of State -the leader of one of the most important and powerful countries on Earth and the prestigious officials came from around the World to meet with him-as well as from just Europe itself. The silverware would have been used during banquets, meetings and visitations and would have been used by any number of important people-including Hitler himself. The myriad of big names that may (and did) have handled and used the silverware is overwhelming in it's possibilities.