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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4480213, member: 111&quot;]A 1799 Danish fish server (fiskespade) with slight damage, but an interesting allegorical engraving, the broken column/pillar usually associated with a &#039;life cut short&#039;:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/danish-fish-spade-1799-1-1-jpg.388938/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/danish-fish-spade-1799-2-1-jpg.388939/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/danish-fish-spade-1799-3-1-jpg.388940/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have wanted a Scandinavian horse-handled wooden mangle board for years, never finding one I loved and could afford as well - so couldn&#039;t resist this cake server (kakespade) by Norwegian maker Th. Olsens, the design pretty clearly based on mangle boards.&nbsp; Have never seen anything quite like it, and am so charmed by what may be the cutest silver horse ever - the mangle boards in the composites are all 18th or 19th century:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/horse-mangle-board-cake-spade-th-olsens-01-1-jpg.388941/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/horse-mangle-board-cake-spade-th-olsens-05-1-jpg.388942/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/horse-mangle-board-cake-spade-th-olsens-03-1-jpg.388943/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/horse-mangle-board-cake-spade-th-olsens-comparisons-1-jpg.388944/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/horse-mangle-board-cake-spade-th-olsens-comparisons-2-jpg.388945/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of my spoon displays (all packed away at the moment) have glass doors to help prevent tarnish, but couldn&#039;t resist this 24&quot; pyrography rack and tried it out with some Danish and Norwegian spoons before packing everything up:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/pyrography-spoon-rack-danish-and-norwegian-spoons-1-jpg.388959/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Harlequin set of enamel bowl &#039;coffee bean&#039; spoons in original Harrods case, Turner &amp; Simpson, Birmingham 1949 - acquired for a song because the seller couldn&#039;t see the marks for the tarnish:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/spoons-enamel-turner-simpson-1949-composite-jpg.388935/?temp_hash=466dc53386e41a1575b41ea572298d71" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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