Featured Do you think this is for salt or sugar or something else?

Good evening everyone,

Got this little guy as part of a demitasse spoon set, and I'm wondering if you think the purpose of this is for salt, for sugar, or something else? It measures 4 1/2" long, any suggestions are welcomed:

 

What amount ( dry or liquid) does the bowl hold?

 

The gilding in the bowl implies that it was for something like salt or another acidic food - like mustard. Gilding protects the silver surface from corrosion.

 

Not very much, I would say the bowl is about the diameter of my pinky.

 

?? So you can stick your pinky finger into the bowl and fill it completely?

 

For measuring coffee?

 

Just the first crease of my pinky

 

Wow! - VIP coke spoon from Studio 54?

But seriously - what amount does it hold - a Tablespoon?

 

Well, at that size, I can only guess it was originally made for salt, although the length of the spoon shaft implies mustard or another similar condiment.

 

I would say less than a tablespoon.

 

Hi,
It looks kind of like a candle snuff?

 

Maybe, but most candle snuffers have a bottom taper to extinguish the flames oxygen quickly , this has a convex/concave bottom?

 

i think it may be a cream bucket ladle...

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pewter-vintage-miniature-milk-churn-466537994

 

LOL - for who? A Fairy? OH, I forgot, are we allowed to even say "Fairy" anymore? EH, Cancel Culture Idiots?

 

If it was with a demitasse set I would say it is a sugar scoop. In Brazil all daytime coffee is served in demitasse cups and sugar is added by the scoopful. ( Morning coffee is served in regular cups with 1/2 milk.)

 

Here is a Brazilian Demitasse spoon set with a sugar spoon. It was considered bad manners to use your coffee stirring spoon to add sugar, there was always a separate sugar utensil just for adding the sugar.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Se...405041?hash=item2b02ca48b1:g:2VIAAOSwBTVgYBUC

 

Heh, I have one of those little cuties - it's a coffee measure (kahvimitta), they come in different sizes and shapes, but yours looks about the same size as mine, holds 2.5 ml (about a 1/2 tsp.) - if you don't already know, the pattern is Kultakeskus' 'Musla':

https://kultakeskus.fi/products/silver/cutlery/musla/?lang=en

~Cheryl

 

As usual, Cheryl stops in, finds obscure information, shares it, and I'm blessed thank you

 

I had a Tiffany salt spoon in the shape of a sunflower that was perfect for an occasional bump.Or so my friends said. Yeah,thats it ,my friends. If you did one THAT size your head would have exploded!