A lovely Art Deco barware set designed by Val Saint Lambert circa 1940. Sleek design with a tall molded crystal and silver plate, Martini pitcher or mixer jug, and long stirrer spoon. The crystal carafe has a silverplated metal lip and strainer for pouring and holding ice cubes inside the container. A matching extra-long silver-plated metal stirrer spoon completes the set. The crystal pitcher is marked underside as "Val St Lambert," the original marking of the company.
 
About:
Val Saint Lambert is a Belgian crystal glassware manufacturer founded in 1826 and based in Seraing.
During the period of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte asked French industrialist Henri D'Artigues to leave the French crystal maker Saint-Louis to buy the dilapidated glassworks at Vonêche. Like Saint-Louis, Vonêche produced lead crystal glass and in ten years had become the most important crystal producer in the French empire.
In 1815 following Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the Southern Netherlands was re-united within the new United Kingdom of the Netherlands. As a result of newly imposed import duties, the Vonêche factory immediately lost most of its French market. In 1816, D'Artigues negotiated with King Louis XVIII of France to buy the Verrerie glassworks and renamed it the Verrerie de Vonêche – a name it kept until 1843. The Belgian Revolution of 1830 meant that the Vonêche glassworks also lost most of its Southern Holland market and closed soon afterward.
In 1825 two industrialists bought the site of the former Val-Saint-Lambert Abbey in Seraing near Liège on the river Meuse. There they founded a new glasswork originally focused on heavy lead crystal, which initially employed some of the key workers from the former Vonêche glassworks.
Due to the quality of its designs and manufacturing process, the company developed a well-known brand and expanded, with its largest export market being Tsarist-ruled Russia. In 1876 the company opened a distribution base in New York and started developing its "bright" ranges and superior-quality cutting. The resulting "bright period" expanded the company's reputation and market, especially in North America.
As the company became more successful - at its height in 1900–1914, it employed over 5,000 workers creating 120,000 pieces of glass per day.
The company stopped producing during World War I, and post-war, after the Russian Revolution, the market collapsed, resulting in financial difficulties and contraction. Exports to North America saved the company, but again it suffered financial problems with the collapse of that market post the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
The company closed some factories and was stable by World War II. Like most of Belgium, the factory was bombed during the war by the Nazi Luftwaffe and the Allied Air Forces of the RAF and USAAF. 
Production resumed initially in the less bomb-damaged Jemeppe factory until the buildings could be restored at Seraing, which resulted in the closure of the Jemeppe factory in the 1950s.
Many buildings in Seraing have been restored, but much of the site remained as it was after World War II until the early 2000s. These derelict 19th-century buildings were excavated to create the modern frame factory of steel, the visitor center, and the factory outlet that exist today.
(Credit: Wikipedia)