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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2815461, member: 111&quot;]Sorry Nate, not really following your thinking here - assuming you&#039;re referring to the &#039;joint&#039; as where the stem joins the bowl with the accompanying drop, but why would it be an imperfection?&nbsp; A rat tail or drop served to strengthen the spoon, protect the heel, and was attractive as well - other than for some specialized pieces like large ladles, etc., or something like pieces with cast handles or of a different material, one-piece construction was typical by fairly early in the 18th century, if not earlier (not that there aren&#039;t anomalous two-part construction spoons, from various periods and origins).</p><p><br /></p><p>A good number of American coin spoons have no drop (and some have drops basically consisting of incised lines), drops started falling out of favor around the early 19th century, and would think it less time intensive to produce a spoon with a plain heel, the silver could be hammered to the thickness desired, but in quite a bit of coin, it&#039;s very thin, resulting in the common tears and breaks in the bowl (and quite a few later coin spoons were not hand-wrought).</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Dixon spoons are classic &#039;Old English&#039;, the pattern dating back in England to around the 1760s, suspect it&#039;s still in production by some manufacturers - again, the drop is not a defect, and to my eye, as well as many others, it is aesthetically pleasing...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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