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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9872110, member: 111"]The 'monkey spoon' term is American, originally mentioned in the account of only one 1749 New York Dutch funeral (roomlepels most likely dated no earlier than at least a couple of decades later) - it was not until the Dutch cream spoons were illustrated as 'monkey spoons' in an 1890 magazine article that any image was shown, prior to that there were only guesses as to what those pallbearer gift spoons looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p>They do have a use, they're cream spoons - and I haven't found indication that they were ever intended for use as memento mori spoons, though those definitely exist...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9872110, member: 111"]The 'monkey spoon' term is American, originally mentioned in the account of only one 1749 New York Dutch funeral (roomlepels most likely dated no earlier than at least a couple of decades later) - it was not until the Dutch cream spoons were illustrated as 'monkey spoons' in an 1890 magazine article that any image was shown, prior to that there were only guesses as to what those pallbearer gift spoons looked like. They do have a use, they're cream spoons - and I haven't found indication that they were ever intended for use as memento mori spoons, though those definitely exist... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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