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agphile Posts: 798 |
posted 12-13-2011 12:00 PM
  
I thought I might use a few minutes on a dull December day to share a few more early spoons. These examples were probably made more for show than for use. If pressed, I describe them as spice spoons but without any evidence to support that description. The spoon on the left is made from a cowrie shell, silver mounted. It has no marks and I guess is from the 17th century. It should perhaps not have been included in this forum as it could well have been made in continental Europe rather than England. I have seen a near identical spoon in a museum in Krakow. The spoon on the right, again with a mother of pearl bowl, has no marks. This shape of stem and trefid end is often found on provincial spoons, particularly West Country, from between roughly 1670 and 1685 so I feel safe in describing it as West Country c. 1680. Back then exotic shells and mother of pearl would have seemed rarities and maybe more intriguing than a common or garden solid silver spoon. IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11573 |
posted 12-13-2011 12:18 PM
What size are they? Perhaps they are caviar spoons? IP: Logged |
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agphile Posts: 798 |
posted 12-13-2011 12:31 PM
The two outside spoons are roughly 5.3 inches long and the centre spoon just over 6.3 inches. I'm not sure that caviare featured in English diet of the 17th century, but who knows? IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1800 |
posted 07-27-2012 09:55 PM
I am not too familiar with these spoons and British silver of this period is not my area of expertise. Are the shell portions original to the spoons, or later modifications (I ask having seen several 19th/early 20th century spoons retrofitted with shell bowls). IP: Logged |
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agphile Posts: 798 |
posted 07-28-2012 06:58 PM
Although surviving examples are relatively rare, the spoons are a known form of the period and the bowls are original, or in the case of the spoon on the right may be a like for like replacement at some stage in its life: its bowl is not as good a fit as on the others. IP: Logged |
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