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Where is 'here' OBB?

 

You can't taunt us like that and not show us your flat sheep!

 

London or close to it. Here where I am, the spoons are almost unknown. Then again no one collects "collectible" spoons in this neck of the woods any more anyway.

 

All we like sheep...

 

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Yup, I is a Brit Londoner.

Whitmans! I remember flying out to Washington, TWA, in the late 70s. Business trip, so I flew Club. They gave gifts, including Whitmans.

 

It's not the best stuff, but it's good. It used to be better before they got bought out. If you're ever in the Northeast again, check for Hebert's and Barton's. The latter makes some chewy bits at Passover that are evil in a tin. Pecan caramel chocolate chews. They also make a dark chocolate peppermint bark for Christmas/Hanukkah. Dangerous stuff.

 

Oooooh ooooooh ooooh, dark chocolate peppermint ANYTHING, yes!

 

I'll take a whole tree, please.

 

I'm rather fond of York Peppermint Patties, and I do miss Sees: they did very nice fresh fruit dark chocolate truffles.

If anyone loves dark chocolate and mmmmmmint. Seek out Bendicks Bittermints.

 

My Mom has collected tins for decades - most are packed away, but here's a basket full of typewriter ribbon tins that sits in the living room:



~Cheryl

 

American Apostle spoons by Gorham, have found them advertised from the late 1880s into the 1910s (scroll down on the first link):

https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/CatalogPgs/Gorham/Apostle.html

https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/CatalogPgs/Gorham/Evangel.html

~Cheryl

 

I can see it, maybe EU only? For now...
It is a video of a very nicely organised lock-up. I have seen second-hand stores that were much more cluttered.

 

I like the explanation: This practice [giving such spoons to children on religious occasions] was in imitation of the heathen...