Featured Some more spoons...

Starting with a piece I just received in a Christmas spoon exchange in a silver group I belong to - an amazingly wonderful gift, coming with a very thoughtful note from the kind man who sent it. A late 19th-early 20th century Norwegian plique-à-jour enamel sugar shovel by David Andersen:










Though I've had them for years, can't recall if I've shown these dragonfly spoons here before:









'Jersey Skeeter' (crane fly) spoons, by Codding Bros. & Heilbron, Shepard, and four variants by W.C. Finck:








~Cheryl

 

I love dragonflies. Was at a big simultaneous hatch this summer on a Maine lake where they were coming out of the water to hatch and learn to fly for the first time. It really looked like they were having a lot of fun. I was landed on repeatedly as a temporary rest stop.

You sure some of those aren’t mosquitoes? I’ve seen plenty of hatches of those too…

 

I've loved them all my life - and they land on me all the time, always surprised when people are afraid of them. When I had a pool, my backyard was filled with several varieties...

The last images are, as noted, 'Jersey Skeeters', actually harmless crane flies, but creatures subject to much exaggeration.


~Cheryl

 

Whoops, missed the Jersey setter comment, too busy looking at the spoons…

 

Used to collect sets of Norwegian enamel mocha/demitasse spoons, but sold them off 15-20 years ago - one set I couldn't let go, and finally found it tucked into a box of miscellany, packed quite a while ago. Bought the set of twelve over forty years ago, took me a long time to identify the maker (prior to so much information being available online), but was finally told Oslo maker Clemet Berg, the firm founded in 1894. A few years after acquiring the spoons, saw a nice old plush-covered presentation case for twelve at a flea market, the outside worn, sort of like an old teddy bear, the interior a lovely red, its origin the New Orleans retailer A.B. Griswold & Co., it held two spoons that I desired as well - asked the price, it was very reasonable, and she threw in the spoons because they had 'ugly' engraving (which I loved). The freebies were a pair of Gorham 'Nuremberg' demitasse with large entwined monograms on the backs of the bowls, would think a wedding gift, on the fronts of the figures are tiny "Mar 28 1891" dates, above the monograms are script initials sharing only the surname letter 'P', suspect they were later added for the next generation and passed on...















~Cheryl

 

Thanks to you , if I ever come across a plique-à-jour enamel spoon..... I'll know what to do !!!

yers is lovely !

 

Thanks, Komo - haven't counted recently, but around fifty in my collection...

~Cheryl

 

Drool ! Drool ! Love them all !

 

Feel sure I've shown this spoon before, my plique-à-jour dragonfly spoon, have never seen another like it...





~Cheryl