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Message:: [QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 504489, member: 111"]Years ago, was part of a discussion on another forum regarding a Gorham piece with a fancy bowl and an ivory handle, and in 2008, an excellent article in 'The Magazine Antiques' was published on Gorham's ivory handled pieces - can remember saying to myself, "I'd like to have one of those."  Recently ran across this bonbon scoop and snapped it up, the pictures show it on the page from the article showing three of the six designs produced, mine looks to have a muscular little putto holding onto a pair of wyverns and there's a small grotesque mask at the tip, the production number is '525' and the date code is for 1891, it measures 4-1/2" long and 2" wide. The text from the article, "In 1890 Gorham also introduced six bonbon “scoops” (Gorham’s term, although the slightly dished pieces look more like bonbon spoons or almond shakers) numbered 510, 515, 520,525, 530, 535. Each had a small uniquely shaped gilt bowl entirely occupied by a different elaborate hand-pierced rococo design and a differently shaped carved ivory handle pinned to a tubular extension from the bowl" [ATTACH=full]164965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]164966[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]