Featured Sterling salad bowl?

I doubt it. My mother gave me these pieces about a year ago as a salad set. I told her that that the bowl was too small for that. (8.5 X 2 inches). I think those are serving spoons. (correct me if I'm wrong). Plus the spoons are engraved with a date in 1919. The bowl engraved in 1921. Who buys the utensils two years before the bowl if they go together? Not sure if she believes me.
Made by kalo sterling of Chicago, (Good quality American silver company). All three pieces have that "pounded" look. Did someone at the factory back then, just have the job of tapping on silver with a little hammer all day? Could you imagine? Appreciate all comments

 

I have found up to twelve matching pieces, given one a year at Christmas, as could be afforded.

 

I think you are right to doubt that the bowl was intended for salad. I would never use silver for something that's going to have vinegar and or salt touching the metal for long. The size might be acceptable for "dinner for two," but it seems too shallow for larger parties. How deep is it?

You betcha that better silver manufacturers back then really did have staff that did the hand-hammering you see on the spoons.

Salad servers usually have different bowl shapes than what I see there. One like a fork and the other a broader spoon. I agree with your opinion on them.

What a nice thing to have passed down!

 

Also doubt the bowl is for salad. Great items to have. Kalo is one of the most sought after American arts and crafts period makers. Treasure these.

 

I found the serving pieces on Replacements. They have the hammered finish. The bowl isn't there. It looks like a centerpiece bowl from here.

 

It's a beautiful bowl, but knowing what some people put in their salads, I wouldn't want to be serving that out of a silver bowl! The acid in the vinegar or the dressing or whatever the hell else is in there, would damage the silver grievously!!

 

That's Kalo's #5811 'Lotus' bowl, made with several variations indicated by letter suffixes, the Chicago Silver site notes that, "the 5811 was often sold as a salad bowl". The serving pieces are a salad set, they made others similar in style.

Shallow salad bowls, smaller than we'd expect now, were normal when these pieces were made, and sterling holds up just fine, not like the food is going to be stored in it, and it would be washed after use...

Couple of sterling salad bowl and server sets from 1916 and 1917 catalogs:




~Cheryl

 

you do drill down to find stuff !!

 

Pretty impressive Dragonfly. I guess this means I have to admit to my mother that she was right, and I was wrong. Curses.