Cutlery Museum Cutlery Museum The Cutlery Museum is a museum located in Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme in France in the department of Puy-De-Dome. The museum has been open since 1982 to preserve the memory of the Thiers cutlery industry. The Cutlery Museum consists of three buildings distributed between the city center, among which the one is dedicated to the history of the cutlery industry (in the former "House of the Consuls", registered in Monuments History 1983) and the other one in demonstrations of manufacturing of knives and in exhibition of knives of art, and the village of Castle-strapping lad (Thiers) Château-Gaillard where one can
Cutlery foods and the cutlery metal can lead to unpleasant tastes. Gold is even less reactive than silver, but the use of gold cutlery was confined to the exceptionally wealthy, such as monarchs. Even comparatively modest households might have one or two items of silver, often silver spoons. Wealthy individuals would own large sets containing a range of specialised dining implements, such as the comprehensive set in sterling silver made for the French aristocrat Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier (known as the Marquis de Lafayette) by the Towle Manufacturing Company. It contained, among many other items, a gravy ladle,