A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER STANDING CUP AND COVER, MAYERHOFER & KLINKOSCH, VIENNA, 1844

with detachable liner, elaborately decorated with scrollwork and flowering foliage, the base supporting four seated allegorical figures below a knop applied with armorial shields, two locomotives , one with a tender and two goods wagons, the other with a tender and two passenger carriages, below the lip banners inscribed with the names of cities: Troppau, Lemberg, Wien, Brünn, Ollmütz, Prag, Oderberg and Presberg, detachable richly chased liner and openwork cover

Very good crisp condition with attracive parcel gilding. The ribbon on the base below the seated figures appears to have had erasures.
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The arms are those of the Margraviate of MORAVIA and those of the Royal County of TIROL; the Kingdom of GALICIA; the Kingdom of BOHEMIA; and the Archduchy of AUSTRIA below the Enns.

The first railway of the Austrian Empire opened in 1827. It ran between Budweis and Trojanov, receiving the royal approval in July 1832, when the Emperor Francis and the Empress Caroline Augusta rode in stage from Magdalena to Anhof. The network was gradually extended, with a new steam locomotive line opened in 1837 between Vienna to Krakow operated by the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn Company. It was financed by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, the German-born banker who settled in Austria. The first three locomotives were built for the line in England by Robert Stephenson & Co. A further 39 locomotives were supplied before 1844 by William Norris of Philadelphia, USA.

One of the model locomotives on this cup is a 2-2-2 Stephenson-type with an enlarged stack for wood burning fuel. Its tender is a curved, four-wheeled type, first used about 1837. The other is based on the 'Austria,' a 4-2-0 locomotive with a domed Bury-type firebox, constructed by Norris and first put into service in 1838

'Formerly, Augsburg was the German city most renowned for its silver chased work; now it is Vienna. The greatest establishment of the kind is that of Mayerhofer and Klinkosch, at the corner of the Kohl-market. Their manufactory is in the suburbs, and well deserves a particular description. The greater part of the plate to be transmitted as heirlooms in the noble families of Austria, is made there; hence a long series of their coats of arms, which must be stamped on every separate piece is preserved. A large service of plate for Mehemet Ali was lately bespoken at his this house.' (Johann Georg Kohl, 'The Shops of Vienna,' Austria, Chapman & Hall, London, 1844, p. 154)

The actual economical and touristic development of Judendorf-Straßengel can be precisely identified: it was on the 21. October 1844, the opening day of the railway track section between Mürzzuschlag and Graz. The Railways helped Judendorf and Straßengel to frequent excursionists, pilgrims and other visitors. Already in the 70's of the nineteenth century, in other words long before the first convalescence institution was constructed, it was fashionable for well-situated citizens to travel to Straßengel in order to promenade, as numerous historical sources prove.

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