Robbe & Berking

JAN VON BORSTEL Sterling Silver Bowl

£34,675.00

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Jan Von Borstel Sterling Silver Bowl, Robbe & Berking

JAN VON BORSTEL Sterling Silver Bowl detail

Robbe & Berking

JAN VON BORSTEL Sterling Silver Bowl

Name: JAN VON BORSTEL Sterling Silver Bowl
Brand: Robbe & Berking
SKU: 80132fb76d5b
Price: 34675.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£34,675.00

Tax included. Shipping calculated at checkout.

Options: Jan von Borstel bowl, highly polished

Jan von Borstel bowl, highly polished Jan von Borstel bowl, satin finished

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JAN VON BORSTEL Sterling Silver Bowl

£34,675.00

Options: Jan von Borstel bowl, highly polished

Jan von Borstel bowl, highly polished Jan von Borstel bowl, satin finished

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Imported from Germany – please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.

FREE UK delivery on orders over £50. Or £4.95 on smaller orders. International delivery costs vary.

30 day returns

Have a question? Call: 01458 258 458. Message Us.

Why Lincoln House

Great cutlery is not only aesthetically pleasing, balanced in the hand and functionally efficient. It will literally enhance your enjoyment of food.

We’re here to help you find the perfect cutlery for you and your home.

As specialists, we have cutlery to match most budgets and tastes – our range encompasses outstanding contemporary cutlery styles, ornate and flamboyant designs and all the most famous traditional English patterns.

Our 2nd generation family-run business has been making and selling fine table cutlery since 1967. In addition to our own Sheffield cutlery, we partner other leading brands to ensure that we offer the most comprehensive range of sterling silver, silver plated and stainless steel cutlery available in the UK today

By bringing you cutlery direct from the manufacturer to your table top, we offer much better prices than you will find in the shops.

We undertstand that dining habits are changing – and there is no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to a cutlery set. That’s why every cutlery range we offer is available as individual pieces – allowing you to choose the right quantity for your needs.

Within most of the cutlery ranges we sell the cutlery sets are progressively discounted; versus the price of the equivalent number of individual pieces. That means the more you buy, the more you save!

And all this is backed by professional and personal service – we are here to be as helpful and informative as you need us to be. Just pick up the phone or email us.

We supply cutlery for your home, for restaurants and hotels, as well as prestigious sporting venues and clubs. We supply cutlery throughout the UK and worldwide.

UK prices displayed in GBP (£) and include VAT at 20%.

We also accept payment in Euros, US Dollars, Canadian Dollars and Australian Dollars. Our site automatically detects if you are in one of these countries and converts prices with zero VAT.

If you are outside of these countries/regions all prices will be displayed in GBP (£).

If you have any questions, or would prefer to order by phone – please call us on 01458 258 458 or contact us here.

We aim at all times to give all our clients a professional and personal service, so when you call you will be talking to someone who is knowledgeable and helpful – not a call centre!

We have spent our careers making and selling the finest cutlery and silver and we look forward to helping you too.

Delivery & Returns

Delivery Charges

United Kingdom & Northern Ireland – FREE delivery on orders for £50.00 or more; a £4.95 delivery charge will apply to smaller orders.

International shipping costs vary. For all international orders, shipping is charged at cost, based on order value and estimated size/weight of package. The shipping charge will be added to your order at checkout when the destination country is added. The international shipping charge does NOT cover any import duty or taxes that may be due. If any import duty or taxes are owed, it is the responsibility of the ‘receiver’ (i.e. the customer), to pay them, not the ‘sender’ (i.e. Lincoln House Ltd.). The receiver will be contacted by the relevant organisation in their own country regarding payment.

Delivery Times

An approximate timescale for despatch is given for each product. We will endeavour to inform customers of any deviation from stated times. Please note delivery timescales may vary for unforeseen reasons (e.g. national/international carriage times).

For more detailed delivery times indicator, please click here.

Damaged or Faulty Goods

In the unlikely event that you receive an item that is damaged or faulty, we can offer a replacement, or full refund, within 30 days of the customer receiving the order. We simply require photographic evidence of the damaged/faulty item with order number.

To return a damaged or faulty item is free of charge, please contact [email protected] with your name, address & order number and our customer service team will generate a shipping label for you.

Once the item has been received and inspected, you will be notified that a replacement item(s) has been despatched to you, or a refund has been issued.

Returns

We understand cutlery comes down to personal tastes. And sometimes it just doesn’t work out… If you’ve changed your mind and want to return your order, we ask that you contact our sales team and return the item(s) in an unused condition and in its original packaging, within 30 days to:

Lincoln House Ltd.
5 Neville Park
Baltonsborough
Somerset
BA6 8PY

Unfortunately, we aren’t able to cover the cost of returning unwanted items, so the postage cost of returning these items is the responsibility of the customer. Please ensure that you obtain proof of posting as items being returned are the responsibility of the customer until the items reach our offices.

Once the item has been received and inspected, you will be notified that your refund has been issued. Please note the item must be returned with the original packaging, as new, unused, and free of defects.

If you cancel your order before the items are shipped out a refund will be issued right away.

Exemptions

Sterling silver goods, bespoke items (including made to order canteens, or any engraved items) and goods sent to non-EU countries are exempt from the terms of the ‘Distance Selling Regulations’. Please contact us by email or phone should you wish to return these items.

These terms and conditions are in addition to your statutory rights.

International Deliveries and Returns

For further information on INTERNATIONAL Deliveries and Returns, please see: https://www.cutlery.uk.com/international-delivery-and-returns/

For collectors furnishing a formal dining room: a 47 cm handmade sterling centrepiece meant to last generations

This is not a serving dish to tuck away between courses. Nearly six kilograms of sterling in a 47 cm sweep is made to sit at the heart of the table and hold the room—timeless work from Robbe & Berking in Germany, not a passing fashion.

Arrange a London viewing

Monumental presence

A 47 cm diameter reads as architecture on the cloth, not as extra tableware.

Handmade in Germany

Master silversmiths at Robbe & Berking form each piece by hand, not by mass production.

Made to outlast fashion

The bowl is conceived as an heirloom object of timeless elegance, not a seasonal trend.

Highly polished

Mirror

Satin finished

Quiet

Surface character

High gloss, candlelight-bright

Soft matte, restrained sheen

How it reads on the table

Reflects crystal, gilt and linen

Settles into a quieter room

Handmade Robbe & Berking sterling

Same 47 cm Jan von Borstel form

Arrange a London viewing

Scale you can measure

Diameter, mass and founding year sit on the record—so the presence of the bowl is not a matter of guesswork.

47%

47 cm diameter

A sweep wide enough to command a formal dining table.

57%

5700 g of sterling

Nearly six kilograms in the hand—centrepiece weight, not a light dish.

100%

Founded 1874

Robbe & Berking remains a family silver house in its fifth generation.

Figures are those published for this Jan von Borstel bowl.

Scale you can measure

Diameter, mass and founding year sit on the record—so the presence of the bowl is not a matter of guesswork.

See it in London. Trust the hands in Germany.

Arrangements can be made to view this piece at the London Showroom before you buy. What you are looking at is Manu Factum—made by hand by Robbe & Berking master silversmiths.

Arrange a London viewing

Before you commit

Practical answers on ordering and advice—without repeating the story of the bowl itself.

Ordering

The piece

Can I buy securely online?

Yes. You can buy securely online, or call 01458 258 458 to place an order or ask for help and advice.

Who do I contact if I need help?

Call 01458 258 458, or use the store contact form. Lincoln House Cutlery is here to help.

Do I have to choose a finish now?

Yes—select highly polished or satin finished when you order. Both are authentic finishes of the same handmade bowl; a London viewing is the surest way to compare them in person.

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One star is more than enough.

On the packaging: each piece was sent in its own individual plastic sleeve, which is standard practice to prevent scratching in transit. Each 3-piece set was grouped together and clearly distinguishable from the other, all wrapped in tissue paper inside one of our branded boxes. That's the same presentation we use across all our orders, and it isn't something we'd describe as "thrown together." As with any order, the product listing and images on our website show exactly what's included in each set.
On the correspondence — we received five emails on the same query within a 12-hour window, several of them outside our working hours, which didn't leave us a reasonable chance to respond before the next one arrived. We're always happy to help and to respond promptly within our hours, and we'd just ask for a bit of time to do that between messages.
We take all feedback seriously. If there's anything outstanding you'd still like resolved, please do get in touch and we'll help however we can.

£49.95 for this. Seriously?

Two Arthur Price Signature 3-piece sets, delivered three days late, despite the delivery address having been corrected by email and acknowledged by the company.

And this is how £50 worth of cutlery arrived — thrown together in basic plastic wrapping with no individual packaging and no clear identification of the two different sets. Some pieces did not even have visible branding.

I contacted customer service to ask whether this was actually correct.

Their response? Essentially: yes, this is how they package it, the difference between the sets should be “evidently clear”, and I was told that sending several emails within 12 hours was “a bit unnecessary”.

So they get the delivery address wrong, deliver late, send a £50 order looking like this, and then respond to the customer with that attitude.

If this is what you consider acceptable presentation and customer service for a £50 order, you’ve lost a customer.

Never again.

One star is too generous.

Thank you for your feedback, and I do want to address this directly, as there are a few points worth clarifying.
You're right that the order was sent to the address that was incorrectly inputted on your order, despite your email correction — that was our error, and I'm sorry for it. As soon as you let us know it had gone astray, we arranged for a duplicate order to be dispatched immediately, at no extra cost, so you'd have the correct sets as quickly as possible. The delay itself was due to a stock wait, which we'd explained to you.
On the product pricing, you will find our pricing is competitively compared to other retailers. Every single piece of the Arthur Price Signature collection bears the Arthur Price Signature brading.
We take all feedback seriously and always aim to put things right when we get something wrong, as we did here. If there's anything outstanding you'd still like resolved, please do get in touch and we'll help however we can. (See other review for further response)

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.

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JAN VON BORSTEL Sterling Silver Bowl

JAN VON BORSTEL Sterling Silver Bowl

Delivery Charges

Delivery Times

Damaged or Faulty Goods

Returns

Exemptions

International Deliveries and Returns

For collectors furnishing a formal dining room: a 47 cm handmade sterling centrepiece meant to last generations

Choose the light you want on the silver

Highly polished

Satin finished

Scale you can measure

47 cm diameter

5700 g of sterling

Founded 1874

Scale you can measure

See it in London. Trust the hands in Germany.

Before you commit

Let customers speak for us