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Topic: spoon bowl shaping

middletom

Posts: 467
Registered: May 2004

posted 08-08-2004 03:47 PM

The drop on the back of a spoon bowl was hammered into the silver before the shaping of the bowl. At ONC we've reproduced colonial era spoons for a local historical society, those spoons having a small shell hammered in where a drop is often applied. If those spoon bowls had been shaped by raising over a stake, I presume the drop or shell would have been obliterated. We shape bowls by dropping or sinking the silver into a lead impression with an iron punch. That does not damage detail on the back of the spoon bowl, such as rattails. Does anyone know for sure how colonial era spoon makers shaped bowls? By raising or sinking?

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