Wooden box and his housewife signed Jules Piault

Wooden box and its housewife signed Jules Piault. Housewife of the early twentieth century. This housewife is stored in a wooden chest. This chest has 3 floors of storage where there are silver metal cutlery. The fashion of housewives, especially as a wedding gift, began in the mid-nineteenth century. First made of silver and intended for wealthy people to allow them to move with their silverware (holiday resorts, military, colonies), housewives were then made with less expensive techniques (silver metal replacing solid silver), then they were gradually made of non-precious metals (stainless steel, white metal), in order to meet the demand of popular families.

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