German(?) flatware. Identify manufacturer and pattern

[magilner]

Please try to identify manufacturer and pattern of this silverplate flatware. Maybe German in origin. Similar patter on eBay: "Fritz Voos-FRV 3".
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[silverport]

»GRADE« Plated cutlery = Grah & Deppmeyer, Besteckfabrik, Solingen, Germany.

Hello »magilner«

Welcome to the Forum.

Yours knives have an indication from »GRADE« = Grah & Deppmeyer, Besteckfabrik, Felder Str. 41, Postfach 926, Solingen, Germany. (Besteckfabrik = cutlery factory) Their trade marks were »GRADE« and »GRADESIL«.

That you’ve found a similar one of being a »Fritz Voos« * cutlery is possible.

After the Second World War the cutlery producer from Solingen, which factories and workplaces were destroyed in parts or totally by the bomb raids, were very cooperative and inventive. Every one has produced what he could, for himself and for others — one had dies, the other some machines, the third had some material …

You don’t mention any other marks — e.g. aren’t there any more on the stems backsides of spoon and forks? It seems that yours cutlery is plated — or maybe from Stainless Steel of a lower grade?

I request you, to inform us, if possible with images of the other marks. Thank you!

Yours cutlery is in the Style of the so called »Fifties« = made after the Second World War. In the »Sixties« became the Scandinavian Style one of the leading functions in German pattern.

The pattern I couldn’t find out; sorry.

* »Fritz Voos« is mentioned to have been in Düsseldorf, the province capital, and that his activities (e.g. trade mark »SILVOSIA«) were taken over by »Arthur Müller GmbH« (trade name: »AIDA«), Bestecke, Wittenbergstr. 3, Solingen-Ohligs, Postfach 82.

Kind regards silverport

[magilner]

The only mark on the back of the spoons and forks is "GRADE" 100. No other markings. Thanks

[silverport]

Hello »magilner«

Thank you for yours additional information.

For in the future placed questions, please remember to add:

Give the dimensions, e.g. at least the length of the item, the weight ...

Images of all visible marks; at least describe them too in yours description.

Please read this basic information on »Plate numbers«:

http://www.925-1000.com/a_platenumbers.html

Kind regards silverport

[magilner]

Thanks for all tour help. Is the company still in business?

[silverport]

Hello »magilner«

I haven't any information that »GRADE« is still in business?

Maybe the trade marks were taken over by competitors — or they became part of a merger?

Now already the big German competitor »WMF« becomes more and more only cutlery distributor — what should then the others are doing?

If some where documents from e.g. the pattern range of »GRADE« have survived? To get knowledge, in which Archive are some documents available, would be already of some difficulty.

Sure, yours pattern isn’t any more any where in production — it’s available by ‘Second hand’ only.

Sorry that I couldn’t serve you with more.

Kind regards silverport