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RossinScotland unregistered |
posted 06-01-2003 01:39 PM
 
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone had any idea as to what this is. Thank You. IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 06-01-2003 01:51 PM
Probably a food pusher for baby food. In earlier times, similar objects were used as tongue scrapers, to "decoat" the tongue! Now we use a toothbrush to do that. IP: Logged |
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doobees Posts: 277 |
posted 06-01-2003 03:12 PM
It's a Child's food pusher - I posted one myself by Gorham a while back. I don't know about you, but visually, I like the idea of a child learning to use utensils rather that someone at the mirror scraping their tongue... Yuck! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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RossinScotland unregistered |
posted 06-01-2003 03:16 PM
I was just wondering if you could elaborate on "food pusher". Do you mean pushing food into piles to be eaten? IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 06-01-2003 03:58 PM
That's the idea, but I believe it was supposed to have been used by the child's nanny (or whomever was supervising or actually doing the feeding) to scrape together the food scattered about on the plate. The MFA (Boston) has a silver tongue scraper of similar form (only with a straight handle) that was owned by William Dawes, one of Paul Revere's companions on that fabled, but ill fated ride. IP: Logged |
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RossinScotland unregistered |
posted 06-01-2003 04:00 PM
Thanks for all the info. I was wondering also if you knew the maker. It looks like AM Bros. Ltd. IP: Logged |
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adelapt Posts: 418 |
posted 06-01-2003 04:16 PM
quote: The pusher was to stop the poor kid having to chase scraps around the plate with a spoon (they can be elusive). It helped round 'em up. The maker looks like Adie Bros of B/ham. IP: Logged |
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doobees Posts: 277 |
posted 06-02-2003 09:11 AM
I agree with Adelapt. Here are some other examples... According to Richard Osterberg's "Yesterday's Silver for Today's Table": "Food pushers are highly collectable. They were develpoed to help young children get food onto their forks by pushing the food to the fork." ------------------ IP: Logged |
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doobees Posts: 277 |
posted 06-02-2003 09:29 AM
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