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Robbe & Berking Stainless Steel Cutlery

Discover Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery, where refined European design meets exceptional everyday performance. Crafted in high-quality 18/8 stainless steel, these beautifully balanced pieces bring lasting luxury to the table.

Your guide to Robbe & Berking Stainless Steel Cutlery

Explore our collection of Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery, selected for its elegant design, superb balance, and outstanding quality. Known for exceptional standards of craftsmanship, Robbe & Berking creates stainless steel cutlery that combines modern practicality with the refinement expected from one of the world’s most respected tableware makers.

At Lincoln House Cutlery, we offer Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery for customers who want luxury cutlery suitable for both everyday use and formal dining. Whether you are investing in a new table setting, choosing a distinguished gift, or simply looking for beautifully made cutlery to enjoy every day, this collection offers understated sophistication and lasting performance.

Why Choose Robbe & Berking Stainless Steel Cutlery?

Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery is admired for its clean lines, elegant proportions, and exceptional finish. These are pieces designed not only to look refined on the table, but also to feel comfortable, balanced, and satisfying in the hand.

Our collection is ideal for customers looking for:

Luxury stainless steel cutlery with timeless European style

Elegant tableware for everyday dining and entertaining

Beautifully balanced pieces with lasting durability

Distinguished gifts for weddings, anniversaries, and new homes

Fine cutlery from one of the world’s most respected names

For customers who appreciate quality without compromise, Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery offers a compelling balance of beauty, practicality, and prestige.

Premium 18/8 Stainless Steel

Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery is made from high-quality 18/8 stainless steel, chosen for its strength, durability, and excellent finish. The figures refer to the composition of the steel: 18% chromium and 8% nickel. Chromium helps provide corrosion resistance, while nickel contributes to shine, resilience, and a refined appearance.

Some customers compare 18/8 stainless steel with 18/10 stainless steel, but in practical terms the difference is relatively small. Both are premium-grade stainless steels widely used in fine cutlery. While 18/10 contains slightly more nickel and may offer a marginally warmer lustre, 18/8 stainless steel remains an excellent material for luxury cutlery, offering superb durability, a polished finish, and strong everyday performance.

With Robbe & Berking, the quality of the finished cutlery matters just as much as the steel composition itself. The balance, design, finish, and feel in the hand are all part of what makes these pieces so distinctive.

Luxury Cutlery for Everyday Use

One of the great strengths of Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery is its versatility. It brings the elegance and design quality associated with luxury tableware, while also offering the resilience and ease of care needed for modern daily life.

This makes it especially appealing for customers who want cutlery that feels special enough for entertaining, yet practical enough to use and enjoy every day. The result is a collection that elevates ordinary dining without feeling delicate or overly formal.

Timeless Design and Lasting Performance

Robbe & Berking is known for creating cutlery that goes beyond short-lived trends. The designs are refined, balanced, and enduring, making them well suited to both classic and contemporary interiors.

In stainless steel, that timeless design is paired with excellent durability, giving customers the confidence to choose luxury cutlery that will continue to look smart and perform beautifully over time. It is this combination of elegance and reliability that makes the collection so appealing.

Why Buy Robbe & Berking from Lincoln House Cutlery?

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery made from?

Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery is made from high-quality 18/8 stainless steel, chosen for its durability, corrosion resistance, and refined finish.

Is 18/8 stainless steel good quality for cutlery?

Yes. 18/8 stainless steel is a premium-grade material widely used in fine cutlery because it offers excellent strength, durability, and appearance.

What is the difference between 18/8 and 18/10 stainless steel?

Both are high-quality stainless steels. 18/10 contains slightly more nickel, which can give a marginally warmer lustre, while 18/8 remains an excellent premium material with very similar durability and performance in everyday use.

Is Robbe & Berking stainless steel cutlery suitable for everyday use?

Yes. It is designed to combine refined appearance with the durability and ease of care needed for regular use.

Why buy Robbe & Berking from Lincoln House Cutlery?

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

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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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