Featured Spoons...

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by DragonflyWink, Dec 10, 2017.

  1. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I have a large collection of late 1800's American silver plated flatware. I'm particularly fond of the 1890s patterns, so I usually recognize them right off. ;)
     
  2. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    The spoon is a souvenir of Florence, the finial depicting a harpy horse tether ring at Strozzi Palace, the bowl based on the Caravaggio Medusa. Suspect the fork is also a Florence souvenir, the griffin segreant (rampant) based on Donatello's shield at Martelli Palace...

    ~Cheryl
     
  3. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    A very different souvenir of Florence - hand-wrought, nicely engraved with almost cartoonish little birds, and a dragonfly that always reminds me of Evinrude from the Rescuers:

    dragonflyspoon-evinrude-2.jpg

    ~Cheryl
     
  4. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    Thanks for sharing . I really enjoyed looking at them.
     
  5. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    Is that like a diarama but more a spoonerama?
     
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  6. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    Do you mean this one, popsycat?:
    That photo actually shows part of a large, hand made wall cabinet that I purchased used. It was shallow, with a glass door front, and it was very oddly configured inside - undoubtedly for something specific (that I didn't have!)

    I hung silver flatware pieces where there were notches, set little salts & the like where there were ledges, and basically, improvised.

    There was a large space below what you can see in that photo. I displayed a collection of 12 or 15 sterling cordial glasses there.

    (I shouldn't speak of the cabinet in the past tense - I do still have it, but like most of my silver, it's packed away!)
     
    Last edited: Dec 11, 2017
  7. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    Thank ALL of you for sharing your collections!!!!!!!! I never knew that SPOONS were SO collectible!!!! You've all put a lot of time and love into displaying them beautifully!!!!!!!!! JUST WONDERFUL!!!!!!:):):):):)
     
  8. janettekay

    janettekay Well-Known Member

    Very interesting..!! Thanks for sharing...;)
     
  9. LIbraryLady

    LIbraryLady Well-Known Member

    Loved seeing these displays.
    Inspired me to look for a way to display my spoons, etc.
    Half an hour on with google led me to Pinterest for display ideas. Maybe this will be a good winter project.
    Would love to hear people's thoughts on whether it would ever be realistic to try for a closed box display lined with protective cloth.
     
  10. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    How did I miss this post ?!? Drool!
     
  11. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    I love all the beautiful spoons! I got to thinking about some themes in some of the stock spoons. I usually like teaspoon size or larger spoons so they do get used from time to time. These are some very bad photos of some lady spoons.

    ladies.jpg ladies 1.jpg ladies 2.jpg ladies 3.jpg ladies 4.jpg
     
    Last edited: Dec 18, 2017
  12. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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  13. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    There are ladies and then there are ladies :D
     
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  14. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    Lovely spoons, S_I_S - American silver manufacturers produced so many amazing patterns. For those interested, in that first pic, from top to bottom: Wallace 'Irian', introduced in 1902; Alvin 'Raphael', introduced in 1902; Watson 'Bacchante', introduced in 1895; Gorham 'Versailles', introduced in 1888.

    ~Cheryl
     
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  15. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    Here is a much fiercer lady, the Danish warrior Queen Thyra - sorry, crummy old pics, though I do still have them, packed away - the first a youth set (believe by Cohr), the second a serving spoon (the maker eludes me at the moment):

    spoonfork-queenthyra2.jpg

    spoon-queenthyra2.jpg

    ~Cheryl
     
    Last edited: Dec 20, 2017
  16. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    As the mother of three daughters I'm all in favor of fierce! Nice spoons!
     
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  17. VintageKaren

    VintageKaren Active Member

    Another spoon lover here! So fun to see everyone's amazing collections.

    spoons.jpg demi-spoons2.JPG demi-spoons1.JPG
     
  18. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    Karen, DragonflyWink and I have some of the same spoons in our collections, and it seems that you & I do, as well!

    You have a lovely collection!
     
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  19. SSS Spooner

    SSS Spooner New Member

    There is an article in Silver Magazine (JULY/AUGUST 2017) "Silver Sirens: US Censorship and Nudity in Late-Victorian Silver" by Patricia F. Singer. Recommend.
     
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  20. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    Very nice! Karen, you and I have quite a few spoons in common too...

    Paye & Baker, Alvin, Alvin, Dominick & Haff for Greenleaf & Crosby:
    spoonsalligator2a.jpg

    Geo. E. Homer, Gorham, Alvin:
    EasterSpoonsEggs2.jpg

    ~Cheryl
     
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