Featured Look at these cuties - old Swedish salt spoons

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  1. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Seven of these adorable spoons came in this box. I'm very proud that I figured out the marks. :joyful:
    Made by GAB, Swedish mark, sterling mark, Jonkoping city mark, date 1946, GAB mark. Is that right?
    If I sell them, should I sell six instead of seven? Would that seem more like a set?

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  2. judy

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  3. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Thanks Judy.

    Well, only if I interpreted the marks wrong....:(
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    They are lovely.
    GAB or GAR? You've got most marks right imo, except the city mark looks like the Stockholm mark to me. Jönköping has a J, Stockholm a crowned head of st Erik (with shoulder-length hair).
     
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  5. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    What is the length? Oval bowls would be extremely unusual on Scandinavian salt spoons ~ these look more like mocha/demitasse spoons...

    ~Cheryl
     
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  6. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Set with a spare? :)
     
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  7. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    I too thought perhaps GAR but found nothing.
     
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  8. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    They are 3 1/2" long Cheryl.

    I'm pretty sure it's GAB.
     
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  9. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    Demitasse

    GAB for sure
     
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  10. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    They're definitely GAB, the sheaf-vase (Vasakärven) mark at right is also theirs - looked for the pattern in my files, didn't find it, but my GAB catalog is fairly recent, though it might not have even been a line pattern. At that size, they're mocha (mocca) spoons, though 'demitasse' is what most people will search for...

    ~Cheryl
     
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  11. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    Nice. I've actually been through Jonkoping.
     
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  12. KC Antique

    KC Antique New Member

    Agree with others. The GAB mark just has the strike of the B off the piece (happens more often than one would think.) Looks like a Stockholm mark to me as well.
     
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  13. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Thanks KC.
     
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