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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2042507, member: 111&quot;]On American silver, the blunt French style was in use in the early 20th century, and&nbsp; the slender French style started showing up on some patterns in the &#039;20s, and were pretty much standard by the mid &#039;30s.&nbsp; On German silver, would expect them to be earlier, since they were common on French silver in the early 1900s...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This set, on eBay Germany, looks to be the same pattern, the blades are stainless steel, and though available a bit earlier, it didn&#039;t come into wide use until after WWI:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/Lutz-Weiss-Jugendstil-Besteck-fur-6-Personen-800-Silber-19-Teile-Roeschen/274327275661?hash=item3fdf2e088d:g:YgAAAOSwK9heEzj1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/Lutz-Weiss-Jugendstil-Besteck-fur-6-Personen-800-Silber-19-Teile-Roeschen/274327275661?hash=item3fdf2e088d:g:YgAAAOSwK9heEzj1" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.de/itm/Lutz-Weiss-Jugendstil-Besteck-fur-6-Personen-800-Silber-19-Teile-Roeschen/274327275661?hash=item3fdf2e088d:g:YgAAAOSwK9heEzj1</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>French, from the 1911 Ercuis catalog:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]249145[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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