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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-13-2017 05:59 PM
  
I now have three 1870s American figural cream ladles. Does that constitute a collection yet? The floral one just arrived. I know, the photo stinks--I'll take better photos tomorrow in the daylight (on a white cloth, not blue, and I'll polish them first). I was just so excited. It's by Wood & Hughes. Any gardeners recognize the flower? It's so specific-looking--I bet it's some particular flower. IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 02-13-2017 08:37 PM
1 is just one. 2 is a couple. 3 is definitely a collection! Very nice, I like the feeling of these and they seem to fit in that category of things that can be more playful than a patern that flatware has to fit into because it's sort of a stand alone. Like butter knives and dinner bells. IP: Logged |
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Vetdaddy Posts: 70 |
posted 02-13-2017 09:26 PM
Polly, I would call this a collection. Three years ago I never fathomed I would collect flatware. That all changed on day when I attended a very small antique show on the Florida east coast. Cash was king that day and I walked out with a Gorham (attribution) polar bear ice spoon. For me, that one item was a collection. Sadly or not, the fuse was lit....
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Vetdaddy Posts: 70 |
posted 02-13-2017 10:23 PM
Polly, BTW- I personally like the blue background. It reminds me of surgical instruments on blue surgical drape. As with silver, stainless instruments patinate nicely over time. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-13-2017 11:00 PM
Vetdaddy, have we seen your polar bear ice spoon? IP: Logged |
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Vetdaddy Posts: 70 |
posted 02-13-2017 11:31 PM
Polly, I do not believe I have posted any pics. I will get some photos posted this week. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-13-2017 11:39 PM
Please do! I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to see it. IP: Logged |
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Vetdaddy Posts: 70 |
posted 02-14-2017 09:03 AM
As promised....quick pics from my cell phone this morning!! IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-14-2017 09:37 AM
Wow, that is quite an ice spoon! I can see why it started you on the road to collecting! IP: Logged |
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Vetdaddy Posts: 70 |
posted 02-14-2017 10:12 AM
Thanks Polly. Economically I should have kept with the one spoon collection!! IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 02-14-2017 10:28 AM
Very nice spoon, Vetdaddy! And a nice group Polly.  Awesome stuff in this thread! IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-14-2017 01:16 PM
Here we go, daytime photos: IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-14-2017 01:19 PM
The reeded handle seems to be made out of the same thick reeded wire that was used in the handle of a Wood & Hughes compote I have. Here's the compote with clementines in it, with the new W&H cream ladle: And here are the two handles next to each other. That curled part of the compote handle is made of the same reeded stuff, right? Any guesses about the flower? I want to say it's a poppy. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-14-2017 01:23 PM
The other two cream ladles in my "collection" are by Whiting. The bunny one is my favorite. Here's a close-up of the bunny (with its friend a birdie on a berry spoon): IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-14-2017 01:26 PM
Obviously what I REALLY need is a POLAR BEAR LADLE!!!!! IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 02-14-2017 01:53 PM
All very pretty ladle and serving pieces. I have seen Polly's ladle referred to as cream basket ladles. Did the basket shape fulfill some function? IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 02-14-2017 03:11 PM
Start here!  IP: Logged |
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Vetdaddy Posts: 70 |
posted 02-14-2017 04:33 PM
Scott- was one of my favorite songs to sing in the shower when I was a kid. The reverberation off the tile walls really helped my voice. With a warm winter in Florida...no "three dog nights" for us. Polly- I have the whiting bird server and is one of my favorites. The rabbit is simply outstanding.....did not know it existed. BTW- my polar bear is under house arrest and cannot leave!! I feel this thread is going to hurt my wallet. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-14-2017 10:17 PM
LOL, Scott!!! Vetdaddy, take good care of your bear! Those icebergs are melting more and more every year... IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-14-2017 10:22 PM
awht, I always assumed the barrel-shaped bowls on ladles were just a little witticism about what ladles have in common with barrels: both are objects made to hold liquids. IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 02-15-2017 09:28 AM
Polly can have the Polar Bear ladle, but I get the Ice Bowl!  IP: Logged |
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Vetdaddy Posts: 70 |
posted 02-15-2017 10:19 AM
I have always admired the polar bear bowls. Never seen one in person but do follow auction sales as a "indicator" of the market. I was surprised to learn that they are really not that large...about 11 or so inches in diameter and 30 or so troy ounces. I wonder if they ever made larger ones that approach punch bowel dimensions. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-15-2017 10:54 AM
Valentine's Day chocolate soufflé; birdie berry spoon in use, along with W&H compote and Gorham ice cream spoons. (I know, nothing's very visible.) IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 02-15-2017 12:19 PM
Yummy! IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 02-16-2017 11:54 AM
That's a cool picture, Polly. IP: Logged |
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H Bradshaw Posts: 30 |
posted 03-25-2017 02:42 AM
Lovely ladles & other silver. I believe the flower in question is an anemone, probably 'virginiana'; I have them growing in my back yard. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-25-2017 11:00 PM
Anemone! Thank you! IP: Logged |
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seaduck Posts: 350 |
posted 03-27-2017 05:52 PM
Just picked up this very fun thread. Scott: I really did Laugh Out Loud!!! Always so comforting to find others afflicted by the same ailment........ IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-28-2017 09:36 PM
I'm up to five now. The new ones are a Gorham ivy pattern and a Whiting lotus pattern. Bowls: Handles: IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 03-29-2017 09:52 AM
Those look superb together! IP: Logged |
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H Bradshaw Posts: 30 |
posted 03-31-2017 07:22 PM
This collection of little bucket ladles is outstanding; I'm so envious! Congratulations on your 2 acquisitions since the thread started. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-31-2017 11:04 PM
Thank you, H Bradshaw. I think I need to have an ice cream sundae party with five different sauces and creams. Hot fudge, of course, and whipped cream. Caramel. Raspberry. Another kind of berry? Maple? Hm... IP: Logged |
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H Bradshaw Posts: 30 |
posted 04-01-2017 02:38 AM
So many possibilities. And don't forget fresh strawberry sauce; you MUST find more ladles! Hester IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 04-11-2017 09:40 AM
Polly, searching the internet for these ladles is interesting as the search terms used make an unusual difference in the results. For the phrase “hot toddy ladles” the results include lots of ladles of the type you have with a lesser amount of ladles with whale bone handles. With the phrase “toddy ladles” as the search term almost all of the results are some form of ladle with whale bone handles. With the search term “silver cream ladle” most of the results are what I consider traditional all silver ladles. Nevertheless, I have always thought that your ladles were cream ladles and the whale bone types were hot toddy ladles. I may not be using the nomenclature commonly used, but I just do not see using your type of ladle for a hot toddy. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-11-2017 11:08 AM
The thing about hot toddy is, it's hot. Silver conducts heat very quickly. I think you would burn your fingers if you used an all-silver ladle for hot toddy. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 11-06-2017 03:20 PM
New cream ladle! Figural ladle in the form of a water lily, parcel gilt, in its original box. 8" long (about the length of an unsharpened pencil), like the others. Marked only STERLING, but I think this is Whiting, since it has the same three-wire type of handle as my other Whiting ladles. It's a lot like the Lotus ladle in spirit. Needs more polishing, but I don't want to rub off the gilding. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 11-06-2017 03:23 PM
 I love the way the bowl attaches to the handle. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 11-06-2017 03:28 PM
Actually, I'm certain this is Whiting because I've seen the same water lily as a salt dip, with the Whiting mark. IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 11-06-2017 05:37 PM
That's great. I'd guess Whiting also. IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 11-06-2017 09:50 PM
Polly, You really do not have a collection - you have a great collection. Enjoy! IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 11-06-2017 10:00 PM
Stunning Polly! IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 11-06-2017 10:49 PM
FYI Vetdaddy, it looks like Gorham made your polar bear piece using a pattern that some refer to as "Seal Top", though it is called "Old English" in the Gorham archives. It's uncommon enough, the addition of the polar bear is fabulous. Here is a cheese knife in Old English from Pinterest. IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 11-07-2017 11:39 AM
That's a great ladle, Polly! I love the old box, too.  Paul, I actually have an example of Old English by Gorham and it is indeed a tough pattern. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 01-26-2018 10:55 PM
New ladle, in Wood & Hughes's lily of the valley pattern. It's a bit beat up, but all the blossoms are accounted for.
I like the notch on the point of the bowl: [This message has been edited by Polly (edited 01-27-2018).] IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 01-27-2018 09:05 AM
That is a great addition! I hope I live long enough to see your “collection” when it has fully matured... IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 01-27-2018 09:42 AM
Thanks, Rob--I hope *I* live long enough to see that! I'm astonished at the wittiness and variety of cream ladles in this period. It seems unending. IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 01-27-2018 05:14 PM
There seem to be more than a few categories where the makers in this period vied for attention by being very clever in their designs. Butter knives, baby cups, your cream ladles, flat ware of different sorts, match safes, just some I can think of. The big companies were trying to stay ahead of the herd and the little ones wanted attention. All at a time when labor was cheap and the value of good design was paramount. That's my theory, love to hear what others think. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 01-27-2018 06:29 PM
Silver was also available--more so than at the beginning of the century. And novelty was fashionable. There were decades when only very tiny variations on a pattern were offered and acceptable, but in this period people went crazy producing things that looked quite different from other things, at least in silver. I wonder why that was? Did it have to do with who had money to buy them and where their money came from? IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-13-2018 03:54 PM
It's definitely a collection now. New ladle, marked only STERLING 71 (who made it???????): IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-13-2018 04:00 PM
I think my favorites are the Whiting bunny and the water lily in its original box (though I'm never going to dare to actually use that one). I recently lost an auction for a sugar sifter with the same bunny handle. I have a Gorham Lady's Pattern ladle slowly making its way to me; after that I'm going to do my best to cool it with the ladles. Unless something amazing shows up super cheap, of course. --------------------------------------- IP: Logged |
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