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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 311622, member: 111"][ATTACH=full]103133[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I love spoons - the familiarity of the form, an ageless and natural extension of the hand, with incredible variations in design and material, and the sort of comfortable feeling derived from a lifetime of spoons providing me with sustenance, as well as the occasional bitter medicine. They've also given me pleasure in collecting and selling them over the last few decades, originally limiting my personal collection to 500 pieces, culling out as additions were made, later amending to 600, then just stopped counting, though I did continue to sell some of my pieces, usually to justify keeping something much better.</p><p><br /></p><p>With little time or finances these days to shop for much more than groceries and household needs, rarely add to my collection (and most are not even close at hand right now), but did recently run across a few spoons I just couldn't resist.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is an 1893 gilt silver and enamel mocha/demitasse spoon by Danish firm Peter Hertz - years ago, bought a salt and spoon in the same pattern for my Mom, and have wanted one for my collection (only have a few dragonfly spoons, but most are especially nice):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103138[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This uncommon piece, by Danish silversmith Erik Magnussen, is engraved with '1919' and bearing an early mark, predates the wonderful pieces 1920s pieces he designed for the American firm Gorham - took me a minute or two to realize that the Skonvirke design on the handle spelled 'FANØ', so this is a souvenir spoon:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103139[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is a sort of modern, enameled 1938 version of a traditional Sami (Lapp) spoon, made by Finnish firm Hopeatakomo Oy - originally, they were usually made from reindeer horn, but also produced in silver:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103148[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The latest piece, by Trondheim Norway maker Josef Smejda, is done in the fashion of Henrik Møller, and has a bowl formed from one of masks that were used on jewelry, etc., as well as on holloware - the designs based on the sculptures on Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103149[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 311622, member: 111"][ATTACH=full]103133[/ATTACH] I love spoons - the familiarity of the form, an ageless and natural extension of the hand, with incredible variations in design and material, and the sort of comfortable feeling derived from a lifetime of spoons providing me with sustenance, as well as the occasional bitter medicine. They've also given me pleasure in collecting and selling them over the last few decades, originally limiting my personal collection to 500 pieces, culling out as additions were made, later amending to 600, then just stopped counting, though I did continue to sell some of my pieces, usually to justify keeping something much better. With little time or finances these days to shop for much more than groceries and household needs, rarely add to my collection (and most are not even close at hand right now), but did recently run across a few spoons I just couldn't resist. The first is an 1893 gilt silver and enamel mocha/demitasse spoon by Danish firm Peter Hertz - years ago, bought a salt and spoon in the same pattern for my Mom, and have wanted one for my collection (only have a few dragonfly spoons, but most are especially nice): [ATTACH=full]103138[/ATTACH] This uncommon piece, by Danish silversmith Erik Magnussen, is engraved with '1919' and bearing an early mark, predates the wonderful pieces 1920s pieces he designed for the American firm Gorham - took me a minute or two to realize that the Skonvirke design on the handle spelled 'FANØ', so this is a souvenir spoon: [ATTACH=full]103139[/ATTACH] This one is a sort of modern, enameled 1938 version of a traditional Sami (Lapp) spoon, made by Finnish firm Hopeatakomo Oy - originally, they were usually made from reindeer horn, but also produced in silver: [ATTACH=full]103148[/ATTACH] The latest piece, by Trondheim Norway maker Josef Smejda, is done in the fashion of Henrik Møller, and has a bowl formed from one of masks that were used on jewelry, etc., as well as on holloware - the designs based on the sculptures on Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral: [ATTACH=full]103149[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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