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EARLY 19TH CENTURY Comprising twenty-four forks and twenty-four knives mounted with various hardstones and porphyries including Blyberg, Bl? roth, Bredvad, Brunnsberg, Gr?n Klitt, Hykebergs, Loka Risbergs, M?nsta, Orrlock, R?d Orrlock, R?d R?nn?s, Svart R?nn?s, Flinta, and several different types of Tinguait, with a further twenty-four spoons monogrammed with the initials ‘CH’ below a Freiherr coronet, in a black leather lined and conformingly monogrammed fitted case, the silver mounts Vienna, 1840, maker’s mark indistinct, the metal blades stamped ‘Hossfeld in Wien’ The fitted case: 3 ? in. (9 cm.) high; 16 ? in. (42 cm.) long; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep
This superb early 19th century cutlery set, an encyclopaedia of precious Swedish porphyry types and marked with monogram CH, was possibly in the Collection of the wealthy heiress Caroline von Henikstein (1797–1844), who in 1816 married the Austrian orientalist and historian Joseph Hammer (1774-1856). In 1835, upon inheriting the estates of the Countess Purgstall (née Jane Anne Cranstoun), the widow of his late friend Gottfried Wenzel von Purgstall, he acquired the title Freiherr and changed his family name to Hammer-Purgstall, thus becoming Baron Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. The cutlery set, fitted with Viennese polished steel blades, may have been a gift from the exiled Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799-1877), son and heir of the last Swedish King of the Holstein-Gottorp dynasty, King Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837). Gustav moved to Austria where he joined the Habsburg army as an officer and was protected by Emperor Francis I, who created him Prince of Vasa in 1829.