Serving spade in silver from Kunstflidslotteriet

Length 15 cm.

Stamped De tre Tårne 65 for the year 1865, V. Christensen, a control mark, CP inv and the lottery's hallmark, an angel with drawing tools. The Frederiksborg lottery or the lottery of domestic art and craft works to promote the cooperation between art and handicraft, as it was properly called, was a lottery that was to raise money for the reconstruction of the burned-down Frederiksborg Castle. In 1859, Frederiksborg Castle burned down on a December evening and only Christian IV's church room remained. A few years earlier, Frederik VII had begun to use the castle again as his primary residence, whereby a large number of the royal family's effects were brought to the castle. These were lost in the fire. Both the Riksdag and the king himself allocated enormous sums for the reconstruction of the castle, but it was decided to hold a lottery to raise more funds. The greatest artists and factories of the time participated in this lottery with prizes. Ultimately, however, brewer CJ Jacobsen must pay for the reconstruction, as not enough money has been collected.