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Robbe & Berking Silver Plate Cutlery

Discover Robbe & Berking 60 micron silver plate cutlery, offering exceptional durability, timeless elegance, and the practicality of dishwasher-safe luxury. A superior alternative to standard silver plate, with fast delivery from Germany.

Your guide to Robbe & Berking Silver Plate Cutlery

Explore our collection of Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery, chosen for its elegance, craftsmanship, and exceptional durability. Finished in 60 micron silver plate, these pieces offer a level of quality far beyond standard silver plate cutlery, making them a superb choice for customers who want the beauty of silverware with greater strength, practicality, and ease of care.

At Lincoln House Cutlery, we offer Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery for customers seeking luxury tableware that is as usable as it is beautiful. Whether you are creating a refined table setting, choosing a distinguished gift, or investing in cutlery to enjoy for years to come, this collection offers timeless appeal with meaningful practical advantages.

Why 60 Micron Silver Plate Makes a Difference

One of the most important reasons to choose Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery is the quality of the silver plating itself. At 60 microns, the silver layer is around three times thicker than standard British silver plate, giving the cutlery exceptional durability and a more substantial long-term value.

This extra thickness makes Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery a particularly attractive option for customers who want a product that feels luxurious, performs well, and stands up to regular use. It is not simply decorative silverware. It is a serious, high-quality product designed to offer lasting enjoyment.

For many customers, 60 micron silver plate cutlery is also a highly credible alternative to sterling silver. It delivers much of the same refined table presence and elegance, while offering a more accessible and practical route into luxury silverware.

A Luxury Alternative to Sterling Silver

Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery is ideal for customers who love the appearance and occasion of silverware but want a more practical option for regular use. The generous 60 micron silver plating gives these pieces a richness and quality that sets them apart from ordinary silver plate, making them a worthy alternative to sterling silver for many homes.

This makes the collection especially appealing for customers who want to create a beautiful table setting without compromising on durability or ease of ownership. It offers the polish, warmth, and sophistication of fine silverware in a form that feels both luxurious and usable.

Dishwasher Safe and Designed for Modern Living

Another major advantage of Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery is that it is dishwasher safe. For customers who may assume fine silverware requires delicate handling, this is an important reassurance.

The result is luxury cutlery that fits far more naturally into modern life. You can enjoy the elegance of silver plate cutlery with the convenience and confidence that comes from easier day-to-day care.

Fast Shipping from Germany

Availability is another significant advantage. Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery is held in stock in Germany, which means shipping is typically much faster than customers might expect for luxury tableware of this calibre.

For customers who are ordering for a special occasion, replacing pieces quickly, or simply do not want long lead times, this combination of premium quality and fast availability is especially valuable.

Why Buy Robbe & Berking from Lincoln House Cutlery?

Buying Robbe & Berking from Lincoln House Cutlery means more than simply choosing beautiful silverware. It means benefiting from specialist knowledge, personal service, and the reassurance of purchasing from an established cutlery expert who understands the craftsmanship, heritage, and care these exceptional pieces deserve.

Whether you are comparing silver plate to sterling silver, selecting a gift, or investing in luxury cutlery for your own table, we are always happy to help you choose with confidence.

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery different?

Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery is finished in 60 micron silver plate, making it around three times thicker than standard British silver plate and significantly more durable.

Is 60 micron silver plate better than standard silver plate?

Yes. The greater thickness offers improved durability, longer-lasting quality, and a more substantial luxury feel.

Is Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery a good alternative to sterling silver?

Yes. For many customers, it offers a worthy alternative to sterling silver, combining elegant table presence with greater practicality and a more accessible price point.

Is Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery dishwasher safe?

Yes. Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery is dishwasher safe, making it far easier to care for than many customers expect from fine silverware.

Is Robbe & Berking silver plate cutlery available quickly?

Yes. The collection is held in stock in Germany, allowing for faster shipping than many luxury tableware collections.

Why buy Robbe & Berking from Lincoln House Cutlery?

Lincoln House Cutlery offers specialist expertise, personal service, and trusted guidance in fine cutlery and silverware.

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Superb quality, speedy delivery. Delighted, thank you.

I bought it for my daughters wedding gift because I had always wanted one and she loved it so I am happy

Disappointingly small. The ‘rattail’ turned out to be an incised pattern not a proper rattail.
My search continues.

Dear Marcus Barbor
Thank you for taking the time to review your cutlery. We are sorry for your disappointment, however, no one makes the raised rattail – or ‘proper rattail’ that you are looking for.
The traditional English “rattail” (or “rat-tail”) fork and spoon pattern is one of the oldest surviving flatware forms in Britain, dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The “tail” itself was originally not decorative at all — it was structural.
For early spoons especially, the bowl and handle were often forged separately and then joined together. The raised rib on the reverse — the rat-tail — reinforced that junction and concealed or strengthened the soldered join.
Forks evolved slightly differently, but the same principle applied in many early examples:
• The tines/head were forged separately from the stem.
• The handle/stem was then fire-welded or brazed onto the fork head.
• The raised “tail” on the reverse strengthened the weak point where the neck met the fork head.
• On hand-forged examples, the rat-tail was often hand-drawn with hammer work after joining.
Early English Hanoverian forks from roughly 1700–1750 commonly show a very pronounced rat-tail because the construction genuinely needed reinforcement.
By the Georgian period, metallurgy and forging improved enough that the structural need largely disappeared. The rat-tail gradually became shallower and then decorative only. Around the later 18th century, many Hanoverian forks lost the rat-tail entirely.
Most modern “rattail” cutlery is made completely differently.
Modern stainless rattail forks are usually:
• stamped from a single blank,
• rolled and pressed in dies,
• with the “tail” formed by coining/pressing rather than forging.
The tail today is usually just a shallow pressed ridge because:
1. there is no structural joint to reinforce,
2. deep forging is expensive,
3. modern stainless alloys are much stronger than early wrought silver or iron.
Traditional hand-forged silver rattail patterns still exist today from specialist makers, but they are niche luxury production rather than mainstream manufacture.
If you are searching for traditional Rattail teaspoons (you bought 6 from us) with the raised ridge-you will need to search in the antique market.
There isn’t a single cut-off date when manufacturing techniques changed over, because methods overlapped for decades and varied by maker. But broadly:
• Fully hand-forged two-piece silver rattail forks remained common through the 18th century.
• High-end Sheffield and London silversmiths still used forged-and-joined construction into the mid-19th century.
• Industrial drop-stamping and die-forging increasingly replaced them from roughly the 1840s–1880s.
• By the early 20th century, almost all commercial EPNS and stainless rattail cutlery was one-piece stamped construction with decorative tails only.
So the “last” true structural rat-tail forks were probably being made by traditional silversmith workshops into the late Victorian or Edwardian era, but mainstream production had effectively moved to one-piece manufacture by about 1900–1920.
One useful clue when examining antique pieces:
• On genuinely old hand-forged forks, the rat-tail is usually asymmetrical, deeply raised, and organically blended into the neck.
• On modern stamped versions, it tends to be perfectly centred, shallow, and mechanically uniform.
The very pronounced rat-tail seen on early English silver is essentially evidence of the transition from forged multi-part flatware to industrial one-piece manufacture.
I hope this helps inform your search for a ‘proper Rattail’.
We do have a 30-day no-questions-asked returns policy. Your order was placed 30th March 2026, so slightly longer than this time period; however, we are happy to take the spoons back if you no longer want them. Please contact us directly to return them and we will issue a refund provided they are unused, in a new condition, and re-packaged accordingly.
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Lincoln House Cutlery.

Highest standard and so comfortable to hold and use.

Hi Maureen,
Thank you so much for leaving us a 5 star review - we’re over the moon!
Thank you for shopping with us and we hope to see you again soon :-)
Lincoln House Cutlery

This was a gift for a chef friend but I opened it to admire it before I gave it to him. It was truely a thing of beauty! When he received it his message simply said ‘Best Pressie Ever!’

Hi, Thank you so much for leaving us a 5 star review - we’re over the moon!
Delighted that your chef friend was delighted with the Forge de Laguiole Butter Knife - and they are right; it is a thing of beauty. I have one at home as well and love it - use it daily and it's always a joy!
Thank you for shopping with us and we hope to see you again soon :-)
Lincoln House Cutlery

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