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 house mark, an angel with drawing tools. The Frederiksborg Lottery, or the Lottery of Domestic Art and Craft Workers to Promote Cooperation between Arts and Crafts as it was properly called, was a lottery that was supposed to collect money for the rebuilding of the burned down Frederiksborg Castle. In 1859, Frederiksborg Castle burns down on a December evening and only Christian d.4's church room remains. A few years before, Frederik d.7 had started 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 are lost in the fire. Both the Riksdagen and the king himself set aside huge sums for the castle's reconstruction, but it was decided to hold a lottery to raise more funds. The biggest artists and factories of the time participate in this lottery with prizes. In the end, however, brewer CJ Jacobsen has to pay for the reconstruction, as not enough money has been collected.