Featured Some more spoons...

Starting with a piece I just received in a Christmas spoon exchange in a silver group I belong to - an amazingly wonderful gift, coming with a very thoughtful note from the kind man who sent it. A late 19th-early 20th century Norwegian plique-à-jour enamel sugar shovel by David Andersen:










Though I've had them for years, can't recall if I've shown these dragonfly spoons here before:









'Jersey Skeeter' (crane fly) spoons, by Codding Bros. & Heilbron, Shepard, and four variants by W.C. Finck:








~Cheryl

 

I love dragonflies. Was at a big simultaneous hatch this summer on a Maine lake where they were coming out of the water to hatch and learn to fly for the first time. It really looked like they were having a lot of fun. I was landed on repeatedly as a temporary rest stop.

You sure some of those aren’t mosquitoes? I’ve seen plenty of hatches of those too…

 

I've loved them all my life - and they land on me all the time, always surprised when people are afraid of them. When I had a pool, my backyard was filled with several varieties...

The last images are, as noted, 'Jersey Skeeters', actually harmless crane flies, but creatures subject to much exaggeration.


~Cheryl

 

Whoops, missed the Jersey setter comment, too busy looking at the spoons…

 

Used to collect sets of Norwegian enamel mocha/demitasse spoons, but sold them off 15-20 years ago - one set I couldn't let go, and finally found it tucked into a box of miscellany, packed quite a while ago. Bought the set of twelve over forty years ago, took me a long time to identify the maker (prior to so much information being available online), but was finally told Oslo maker Clemet Berg, the firm founded in 1894. A few years after acquiring the spoons, saw a nice old plush-covered presentation case for twelve at a flea market, the outside worn, sort of like an old teddy bear, the interior a lovely red, its origin the New Orleans retailer A.B. Griswold & Co., it held two spoons that I desired as well - asked the price, it was very reasonable, and she threw in the spoons because they had 'ugly' engraving (which I loved). The freebies were a pair of Gorham 'Nuremberg' demitasse with large entwined monograms on the backs of the bowls, would think a wedding gift, on the fronts of the figures are tiny "Mar 28 1891" dates, above the monograms are script initials sharing only the surname letter 'P', suspect they were later added for the next generation and passed on...















~Cheryl

 

Thanks to you , if I ever come across a plique-à-jour enamel spoon..... I'll know what to do !!!

yers is lovely !

 

Thanks, Komo - haven't counted recently, but around fifty in my collection...

~Cheryl

 

Drool ! Drool ! Love them all !

 

Feel sure I've shown this spoon before, my plique-à-jour dragonfly spoon, have never seen another like it...





~Cheryl

 

Love it!

 

Recent acquisition, a late 19th-early 20th century David Andersen replica of a 17th century kroneskje (crown spoon):













~Cheryl

 

This c. 1980s spoon, set with lapis and ivory, was made by E. Austin Goodwin (b.1930, d.2023), long-time professor and chairman of Fine Arts at Kean College of New Jersey. A near identical piece was shown in a 1980s art textbook, along with his fantasy chess set, and a snuffer is shown in a 2001 ad for the shop he and his wife owned.















~Cheryl

 

All of those are amazing--especially the dragonfly spoons. I've never seen those, before. Of course, that means that I now have something else to collect :/

 

That gift exchange spoon is a SPLENDOR!!!
Love all your collection too

 

Knew you'd like it, Kyra! The spoons given are typically quite nice, and chosen thoughtfully, but this piece was a shock, and I literally gasped when I opened it (can only recall seeing this form one other time). His note explained the reasons, and that sentiment was another gift to me.

Thanks! Haven't done a good spoon post in a while, might add a few more in a bit...

~Cheryl

 

I can imagine! It is a stunner, very delicate but it has the visual impact of a beautiful cathedral window.
I love the crown spoon replica with the jingle rings too.
In short, I love all of them.

Please do.

 

Thanks, AJ!


This Norwegian fish server is by Kristian Hestenes, love that it features a lumpfish, a cute critter to my eye, but suspect not to all...











~Cheryl

 

This lovely set of six grapefruit spoons in Gorham's 1880 George Wilkinson designed 'Empress' pattern (aka 'Empress of India') is in beautiful condition:










The patent, applied for in 1880 but not granted until January 1881:



~Cheryl

 

Thanks for sharing more of your collection. Wonderful!