Featured Sterling Olive Pick

Hamilton & Davis.
https://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_H.html

 

It's a butter pick (based on similar picks/pics)

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133985212141

 

but here https://imgur.com/gallery/butter-pick-KJZV66s is another vid, where the pick is used to lift up curled bits of butter by sliding it into the center of the curl, or to pick up little squares of butter, by using it as a pick.

 

I think the way it's used in the 2nd vid is more likely to be the intended purpose of this pick. I assume that with the pick, you will be able to roll out the curled bits of butter.

 

Just great. Now this YouTube lady has convinced me I desperately need one of these.

 

My guess is that your former owner used this to wrangle the olives out of a tall jar. They can really pack them in there. This pick, IMO, would be best for that use. But usually I see forks, either 2 or 3 tine, used to stick olives, but they're not the easiest for the tall jars. I've also seen some spoons made for the purpose. Your guy was clever, even making a stand for it (or having it made by someone else).

I really enjoyed seeing the videos of the butter picks. I didn't really have a good idea of how they worked. And like @mirana I think I now really need one of these.

 

Or, he liked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginjinha, and used it to take the cherries out of the bottle.
Now

 

That's a Hamilton & Diesinger mark - the information on 925-1000 came from Rainwater, and while usually reliable, like most references, whether in print or online, there are errors and omissions. Hamilton & Davis was formed in 1875, dissolved in 1880 - Hamilton & Diesinger was formed in 1882, in 1899 Hamilton left the firm and formed Hamilton & Son, in 1900 Diesinger retired and sold his company to Gimbel's. Can't recall seeing any pattern names by H&D...

~Cheryl

 

1897-

https://www.replacements.com/silver-hamilton-and-diesinger-hmd2-sterling/c/38956

Debora

 

I don't think they were used to pull olives out of a jar. We always had two kinds of olives at holiday dinners in fancy little bowls. We didn't have a pick. We had the claw tongs (which I still have)

 

Too interesting. I was unfamiliar with butter picks.

Debora

 

Circa 1897.

Looks like the Replacements researchers didn't find any pattern names either.


Gotta say, I'm familiar with butter curls, but have never heard of using a butter pick to make those flimsy little 'swirly' things that would likely fall off the pick while transferring them to the plate...








~Cheryl

 

Found it! What's been missing from my life all these years... Butter quirls!!

Debora

 

So I grew up with a silver butter pick, though we usually served with a butter knife, and we had a wired butter pat cutter (originally from when we owned a restaurant), also a weird butter curling tool with a circular blade that only Mom could use properly, and a butter curler/server like the one pictured below - and WOW, they are selling for crazy prices! Mine is packed away somewhere, but thought I'd give a heads up...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=butter+curler&_sacat=0&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1





~Cheryl

 

someone must have loved that pic enuf to make an art stand for it !!

the pick is nice...... the wood carving......... excellent !!!

 

Those crazy Victorians!
I need one, too