The Silverware Collection

Discover our luxury silverware collection, where exceptional craftsmanship, timeless design, and practical elegance come together. From sterling silver photo frames and candlesticks to barware, bowls, decanters, and tea & coffee sets, these are beautifully made pieces to enjoy, display, and give with confidence.

Your guide to The Silverware Collection

We present a beautiful range of fine sterling silverware, including barware, bowls, dishes, candelabra, photo frames, and tea & coffee sets – from leading silversmiths Carrs Silver, Robbe & Berking and Francis Howard. Our collection features a variety of design styles to suit different tastes, ensuring there is something for every preference and occasion.

Discover our beautiful range of luxury silverware. The items in this collection are as functional as they are decorative, which means they are suitable for everyday use, as well as perfect gifts for special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, Christenings and other milestones where Francis Howard silverware & gifts or timeless silver baby gifts make especially meaningful keepsakes.

Our extensive range is crafted to suit both traditional and contemporary tastes and occasions, providing options that enhance any setting. Most items are available for next day delivery or engraving, and silverware gifts can be made to order for a unique touch, with dedicated engraving & bespoke services available for further personalisation.

Explore our stunning collection of silver barware, silver photo frames, silver bowls and dishes, decanters, tankards and beakers, candlesticks, napkin rings and tea & coffee sets – all in magnificent sterling silver. Many pieces are expertly crafted in Sheffield, a city found at the heart of England’s silversmithing tradition.

Why Choose Fine Silverware?

Fine silverware has a presence that few other materials can match. It adds warmth, character, and refinement to the home, while also offering the pleasure of owning something made with genuine care and skill.

Our silverware collection is ideal for customers looking for:

Luxury silverware with timeless appeal

Beautifully made gifts for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and Christenings

Decorative yet practical pieces for the home

Sterling silverware from respected silversmiths

Elegant presentation pieces for entertaining and special occasions

For many customers, silverware is more than a purchase. It is something chosen to celebrate, commemorate, and keep.

Quality and Craftsmanship

The silverware in this collection has been selected for its exceptional finish, thoughtful design, and lasting quality. Many pieces are made in sterling silver, a precious material long associated with craftsmanship, heritage, and fine gift-giving.

What makes these pieces special is not simply the material itself, but the standard of workmanship behind them. The shaping, polishing, detailing, and overall finish all contribute to the sense of quality that distinguishes fine silverware from ordinary decorative items. Whether you choose a photo frame, a pair of candlesticks, a tankard, or a tea set, each piece is designed to feel substantial, elegant, and worthy of the occasion.

Silverware for Special Occasions and Gifts

Silverware has long been one of the most meaningful choices for important gifts, and with good reason. It combines beauty with permanence, making it especially suitable for occasions that deserve to be remembered.

Our collection includes silverware gift ideas for:

Weddings – elegant photo frames, candlesticks, bowls, and barware

Anniversaries – timeless silver gifts with lasting sentimental value

Birthdays – distinctive pieces for milestone celebrations

Christenings – traditional silver gifts to treasure for years to come

Retirement or presentation gifts – refined pieces with a sense of occasion

Corporate awards or hospitality gifting – silverware that feels prestigious and memorable

Many items are also suitable for engraving, making them even more personal for gifting, commemorative use, or presentation purposes.

Functional Beauty for the Home

One of the strengths of fine silverware is that it can be admired and used at the same time. A silver photo frame adds elegance to a room, a decanter or barware piece enhances entertaining, and candlesticks or bowls can become part of everyday living as well as special occasions.

This balance of practicality and beauty is what makes silverware such an enduring choice. Rather than being purely decorative, these are pieces that can become part of family life, celebrations, and traditions.

Why Buy Silverware from Lincoln House Cutlery?

Choosing silverware from Lincoln House Cutlery means buying from specialists who understand quality, craftsmanship, and the importance of selecting the right piece. We are always happy to help whether you are comparing styles, choosing a gift, enquiring about engraving, or looking for something especially suitable for a wedding, Christening, anniversary, or presentation.

With personal service and expert guidance, we aim to make choosing fine silverware feel straightforward, enjoyable, and reassuring.

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of silverware do you offer?

Our silverware collection includes barware, bowls and dishes, candlesticks, cruets and condiments, crystal decanters, napkin rings, photo frames, tankards, beakers, flasks, and tea & coffee sets.

Is your silverware suitable for gifts?

Yes. Silverware is one of the most popular choices for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, Christenings, retirement gifts, and presentation pieces because it combines beauty, quality, and lasting sentimental value.

Is the silverware decorative or practical?

Both. Many pieces are designed to be functional as well as decorative, making them suitable for everyday enjoyment, entertaining, and display.

Can silverware be engraved?

Many items in the collection can be engraved, which makes them especially suitable for personalised gifts, awards, and commemorative occasions. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

Why choose sterling silverware?

Sterling silverware is valued for its beauty, craftsmanship, and enduring appeal. It offers a sense of quality and occasion that makes it ideal for both elegant home use and meaningful gift-giving.

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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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