Featured Found in a silver lot...Plique a jour Marius Hammer long spoon

Pic of the listing:

The Marius Hammer spoon (22.5cm or 8.85"):


@DragonflyWink do you think it was a looped handle tea caddy spoon?
The proportions\length is so odd...
Do you think I should loop it or leave as is?

 

Nice lot, Kyra - love the little 'bucket' tea strainer!

It's a sugar spoon, despite their so often being described tea caddy spoons - don't know why people felt the need to straighten them out. Just take your time, gently reforming it over a cylinder (I usually have some sort of pill bottle or the like that's an appropriate size) - here is mine for a guide (give me a few minutes and I'll measure the diameter of the loop):








~Cheryl

 

This is the shape I think it should be:

 

Thank you Cheryl!
I intended to loop around a cylinder, in the right orientation of looping as it seems they are always as the one above... The diameter will help
I can't believe I got the lot and be the only bidder at scrap price 51€!!!
The other spoon is in perfect condition and very nice!
The little bucket with engraved violets is very cute too but will need a lot of polishing... Is encrusted with oxydation

 

Okay, on mine, from where the stem joins the bowl to the tip of the finial measures 17.8 cm - the interior diameter of the loop is 2 cm.

That was a great buy - the value of the M. Hammer spoon is at least two or three times that on its own!

~Cheryl

 

You lucky, lucky girl! That is a great lot, and the Marius Hammer is the prize. That plique-à-jour looks like a cathedral window.

 

Thanks girls! Yes, I feel very lucky with this find
And... nearly no enamel damage!

 

Nothing that can't be kyratised. (I know this for fact. )

 

Sexy find! Heck of a buy at scrap!

 

I didn't know anything about Marius Hammer, so of course had to do a little Googling. Looking at spoons, the selection shown mainly have straight handles; the ones with curved handles are all different.

 

Oh Kyra, I just I couldn't see you leaving it AS IS!!!!!! Hope we get to see what you do with it!!!!

 

Have such a weakness for the Norwegian loop-handled sugar spoons, purchased my first, shown below in the first pic, over twenty years ago on eBay, the sweet Norwegian lady who sent it included a short verse to be included if given as a traditional wedding gift: "The path of love may be twisted, but the end is sweet." Have bought and sold quite a few over the years, at this point, have 16 different in my collection (hope you don't mind my sharing)...












~Cheryl

 

Very nice collection ,never seen before. Thank you.

 

I'm with louri - glad to have been introduced to these delightful spoons!

 

Woahhh, Cheryl, not only I don’t mind your outrageous hijacking , but appreciate your sharing of these at the utmost
The saying about the twisted path of love with a sweet end is so... SWEET!

THANK YOU

 

No transformation, only restoring it in its original looped shape

I just did it... photos tomorrow

 

Good idea! and for once the enamel was intact. Someone didn't know what that was!

 

Here it is, looped again!

 

Yay!!! Happy spoon, happy kyra.

 

The spoon looks much happier now!