Robbe & Berking

The Box Riva (925 Sterling Silver)

£7,625.00

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Robbe & Berking

The Box Riva (925 Sterling Silver)

Name: The Box Riva (925 Sterling Silver)
Brand: Robbe & Berking
Price: 7625.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£7,625.00

Tax included. Shipping calculated at checkout.

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The Box Riva (925 Sterling Silver)

£7,625.00

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Imported from Germany – please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery for silver plate; 2-3 weeks for sterling silver.

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.

“The Box”. A true centre-piece with great radiance, both when open and closed.

The box holds a 24-piece cutlery set in sterling silver from the Robbe & Berking Riva collection, with ‘shiny’ stainless steel blades (which will be delivered in the grey fabric box).

Robbe & Berking sterling silver cutlery - truly a world-class product from a world-class manufacturer, the most perfect sterling silver cutlery made today.

The 24-piece sterling silver cutlery set comprises: 6x Table knife, Table fork, Dessert Spoon, Tea spoon.

Dimensions of THE BOX:

Height: 300 mm,
Width: 204 mm,
Depth: 204 mm.

The Box is not sold separately.

Hallmarked 925 Sterling Silver Cutlery
Handmade in Germany.

About the Brand

The silver manufacturer Robbe & Berking was founded in 1874 and is still a pure family business today – now in its 5th generation.

Manu Factum – made by hand – is everything that bears the name of the company. The master silversmiths in the silver manufactory and the master boat builders in the Robbe & Berking yacht manufactory are responsible for the unrivalled quality worldwide. It is not the limited possibilities of rational large-scale production, but the hands of the master craftsmen and women alone that determine the form and quality of each piece of work.

This is how cutlery and tableware of timeless elegance and beauty are created, which never just follow passing fashions or trends, but are made to last for generations. As the market leader in silver cutlery, Robbe & Berking is a supplier to the world's finest businesses.

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/

Silver meant to live on the table

For hosts who refuse to lock good silver in a drawer, The Box by Robbe & Berking is a handmade Flensburg stage for a 24-piece service. It is sold only with the cutlery, so the drum can sit where life is played: dining table, coffee table, sideboard or yacht deck.

Light as the argument

No metal reflects natural light the way silver does. The Box keeps that surface in the room, not in storage.

Informal new chic

Elegance without ceremony: the same object belongs at a weekday supper or a more considered gathering.

Made in Flensburg

Robbe & Berking still works by hand in Germany, a family manufactory since 1874, now in its fifth generation.

Closed

Robbe & Berking The Box Riva Marble Cut lifestyle

Open

Closed as sculpture, open as service

The drum is a true centrepiece in either state. Closed, it is a compact cylinder of fabric. Lift the lid and the 24-piece set stands ready in the wooden insert, with the same radiance the room already noticed.

Lid off, each piece remains upright and within reach.

Lid on, the object still holds the table without looking like storage.

925 sterling

Hallmarked

60-micron plate

Massive plate

Silver

Hallmarked 925 sterling

Massive 60-micron plate

The Box

Included, not sold alone

Service

24 pieces, six of each

Origin

Handmade in Germany

Patterns Martelé, Riva, Belvedere

Fabric drum and lid

Grey fabric accompanies polished stainless blades. Anthracite fabric and a marble-look lid arrive with Marble Cut and Frozen Black DLC blades.

Wooden insert

A turned wood block holds each piece upright, so the interior reads as furniture rather than a tray of loose silver.

Belvedere Frozen Black silverware set in The Box

Blade finishes

Choose a shiny stainless steel blade, or the darker Frozen Black or Marble Cut DLC edge. Handles follow Martelé, Riva or Belvedere.

How it sits, and what it holds

Measure The Box against your table, then count the place settings. The Box is a compact square footprint with height enough to read as a centrepiece.

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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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The Box Riva (925 Sterling Silver)

The Box Riva (925 Sterling Silver)

About the Brand

Delivery Charges

Delivery Times

Damaged or Faulty Goods

Returns

Exemptions

International Deliveries and Returns

Silver meant to live on the table

Closed as sculpture, open as service

The same Box, two silver weights

925 sterling

60-micron plate

Fabric drum and lid

Wooden insert

Blade finishes

How it sits, and what it holds

Let customers speak for us