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(More customer reviews)When my sister got married, (during the Lyndon Johnson presidency), it
was I who sent away for flatware and china pattern brochures. Upon viewing them, I fell in love immediately with both the item being reviewed here, (the "Eloquence" silver flatware pattern by Lunt), and the "Dynasty" china pattern, by Minton. Of course, I knew they did not match my sister's and her fiance's simpler tastes, and also that neither they, nor my parents, nor my sister's finace's parents, could afford such (to me, anyway), breath-takingly beautiful china & flatware. No matter.I spent hours, and hours, and hours, just LOOKING at the wonderful photographs of these decoratively patterned tableware...and planning how someday I, myself, might choose them, someday in the future, when I got rich and married. Or maybe, just got married. Or, maybe just got rich....
"Eloquence" was the most beautiful flatware pattern I had ever seen. It remains the most beautiful flatware pattern I have ever seen to this day!
The picture here on Amazon just begins to do it justice.... One is just able to see, (if one squints enough), that the pattern is PIERCED! It resembles a teardrop, (from tears of joy, I assume!), outlined by a frame of cut-out, (the piercing), and then doubly-framed by a larger teardrop, enticingly and beautifully scrolled and etched. The design goes up, gracefully, all the way up to the bowls, (of the beauifully-shaped spoons), and the tines, (of the handsomely designed forks and knives.) Altogether, the MOST beautiful silverware pattern imaginable!
A few years later, I learnt to my astonishment, that TRICIA NIXON had chosen both the Lunt "Eloquence" flatware pattern, AND the Minton "Dynasty" china pattern, in advance of her White House wedding to Edward Cox! I am a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, (with Libertarian leanings)....but it seems I share a taste for the good...no, the BEST things, in life, (too!) To me, Tricia Nixon-Cox herself is the ultimate in elegance, (and "Eloquence"!), and her beatiful face, graceful manners, and long blonde hair, will remain an icon of mine forever. (Not to mention her taste in flatwre and china patterns!)
Alas, the china manufacturer, MINTON, has gone out of business in the intervening years. Piece of the wonderful "Dynasty" pattern, though, may still be found if one looks hard enough. Happily, Lunt still is delightfully in business...and, hopefully, is also still producing the gracious, graceful, and totally enchanting "Eloquence" tableware pattern.
I wonder, though, why this four-piece place setting contains one knife, two forks...and only one spoon? Surely it's easier for one fork to do the work of two forks, than it is for one spoon to do the work of two spoons? I know I use more spoons when I eat than I do forks. I think many people do as well. Surely, at this price, at least a CHOICE of two spoons and/or two forks should have been given?
Ican only request here that they also -- if at ALL possible -- now start to make it, as well, in 18/8 stainless steel, as well. Having this pattern...in however reduced a metal...will always stir both one's imagination, and one's ambition! Lunt's "Eloquence" flatware pattern is of what dreams...and the fullfillnent of dreams...are made. And, as Lunt is an AMERICAN company, just looking at this beautiful flatware, (every day at the table...even if only in a possibly-future stainless steel version), would be a constant reminder of all that America is, was, and can be! Europe is steeped in elegance and prestige...but, looking at the "Eloquence" pattern by Lunt, one is reminded, every time one sees it, that America can be, too!
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For more than a century, Lunt Silversmiths has crafted fine sterling silver flatware in our Greenfield, Massachusetts factory.Lunt flatware feels elegant to the touch and is designed to suit any lifestye. Eloquence with it's traditional scroll was introduced in 1952 and remains Lunts best selling pattern today.This pattern has a wide array of dining and serving pieces to build on for a lifetime of beautiful table elegance.
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