Christofle French Silver Salt Cellar | Buffet Gare de Lyon | Hotel Silver antique box miniature portrait English Sterling Silver Tableware-Name Card

English Sterling Silver Tableware-Name Card Holders

Marked "A1" — Walker & Hall’s designation for their best quality silver plate

there is some loss of plating on the interior

marked with 13 (loth) indicating a fineness of

800 silver and maker’s punch PB with a duck (un canard) for Philippe Berthier

Christofle French Silver Salt Cellar | Buffet Gare de Lyon | Hotel Silver antique box miniature portrait English Sterling Silver Tableware-Name CardAbout This Piece antique Christofle silver plated salt cellar offers a glimpse into Parisian dining history, with roots in the famed Buffet de la Gare de Lyon, later celebrated as Le Train Bleu. The restaurants grand dining room was created for the 1900 Exposition Universelle and shaped by architect Marius Toudoire, whose design refined a railway station restaurant into a destination in its own right. After decades as the Buffet de la Gare de Lyon, it