Serving spade in silver frorom the Frederiksborg lottery

Length 15 cm.

Stamped The Three Towers 65 for the year 1865, V. Christensen, a control mark, CP inv and the lottery's trademark, an angel with drawing tools.

The Frederiksborg Lottery, or the Lottery of Domestic Arts and Crafts to Promote the Collaboration between Arts and Crafts as it was properly called, was a lottery that was to raise money for the reconstruction of the burnt down Frederiksborg Castle.

In 1859 Frederiksborg Castle is burned down on a evening in december and only Christian d.4's church room is left. Frederik d.7 had only a few years before began to use the castle again as its primary residence and therefore a range of the royal families belongings had been brought to the castle and was lost in the fire.
Both the danish Rigsdag(Parlament) and the King himself raised huge sums to the castle's reconstruction, but it was decided to carry out a lottery to raise more funds.
For this lottery, the biggest artists and factories of the time attended with prizes.

In the end, C.J. Jacobsen(founder of the Carlsberg Brewery), paid for the reconstruction.

Item number: 9610

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