Welcome to the The Napkin Ring Site.
Hopefully this site will prove useful to collectors and others with an interest in silver and napkin rings.
Exhibits is a changing display of a smal number of collectable napkin rings with photos, data and collector's comments. Please send some of your own if you like. A click on the photo leads you to the detail pages.
On view. For the moment this section is dedicated to an exhibition of 700 silver napkin rings in a museum just north of Copenhagen, Denmark - and to the catalogue which is the first book entirely dedicated to the ordinary napkin ring.
Identifying silver will develop along the following four routes:
- Links to internet directories of silver marks
- Experience with marks and inscriptions on napkin rings
- Sizes, shapes, borders etc., characteristic of napkin rings from specific combinations of period, country and maker.
- A help line for identification of interesting unmarked or partly marked silver napkin rings.
Feed back
For a successful site your participation is needed.
Please send comments in text or photos relating to any part of the site
to napkinrings@mail.dk
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October 2009
- The shape is classic and pleasant.
- Napkin rings display all the techniques of the silversmith and all the varieties in style and design of the period 1850-1950 that changed silverwork from classic craft to modern design.
Considering the enormous - and often experimental - production of napkin rings, the numbers found in museums are surprisingly small.
In 1966
The Danish "Rudersdal museum" have a tradition for displaying private collections of small-silver.
In 1995 it was napkin rings. Later themes have included posy holders, vinaigrettes, visiting card cases and egg cups. October 2009-February 2010 napkin rings are again the theme (see "On view "section).
Daily sales at internet auctions of 50-100 old silver napkin rings and a matching number for sale in internet shops are signs of a growing interest in this charming item likely to become the last real small silver collectible.
