Austrian Silver and Gilt with Guilloche Box attributed to Alexander Sturm, Co.

Austrian silver and gilt with guilloche box by Alexander Sturm, Co. A silver-plated and gilt box with a guilloche pattern outside the box and a movable open upward-facing holder inside. Marked with a four-leaf clover, company mark for Alexander Sturm, Co. and 925 (925/000 purity of silver). Austrian company. Also marked with the ZI Dutch silver hallmark (925/000). The box measures 14,4 cm high, 8 cm wide and the depth is 1,9 cm (1 Inch = 2,54 cm) The weight is 198 grams. The box shows traces of use SILBERWAREFABRIK ALEXANDER STURM, Vienna Alexander Sturm was born in Vienna in 1851 and has been a silversmith since 1882. A year later he opened his own shop. from 1926, an artist from the Wiener Werkstätte also worked for the company, which had its own design studio, where the artist made their designs for silver production. After the war, Adalbert Sturm revived the factory and design drawings by Otto Prutscher and Josef Hoffmann are included in the factory inventory. In the early 2000s, Christa Berghaus Fölster (1950-2013) saved the company and continued it. She bought machines, tools and punches, as well as the extensive company archive, to preserve and revive the old Viennese silversmith tradition.