Featured Some new spoons...

Have been sorting through my late Mom's stuff and mine too, so a bit overwhelmed, with little wish to add more stuff at the moment - but couldn't resist these small treasures (sorry, quick crummy pics):


These are demitasse - an unusual and dainty agate-handled piece, engraved 'Sault Ste. Marie', marked only 'Sterling'; a small squiggly-stem 1885 Gorham medallion with head of Athena; and an early 20th century David Andersen enamel floral designed by Gustav Gaudernack, engraved 'Bermuda':








This is a late 19th-early 20th century 'Whist' bon-bon spoon by the Merrill Shops, it was also produced with heart, club and spade shaped bowls (I like playing card motifs):






This is a Norwegian looped-handle sugar spoon, 13-1/3 lød silver (approx. .833 fineness) by Bergen maker Christian Børs, believe the year mark is 1852 but it's partially struck (he died in 1859). Have a small collection of these spoons, but this is the oldest and bit different - it's well made with a lovely feel in the hand, very pleased with it:







Below are most of my other sugar spoons (a few others have been packed away for some time):








My first, acquired over twenty years ago:




~Cheryl

 

Another beautiful collection, Cheryl!

 

Gorgeous new finds, and the old ones too, of course.

 

Your collection is the only one I have ever seen that I can really appreciate..............Truly stunning.

 

Lovely thanks for sharing.

 

Just beautiful and love the organization! I must say your Børs sugar spoon looks like it might be awkward to use so hearing lovely in hand is good to hear

 

Yep,I crave those !

 

Cheryl, you should open a museum! Gorgeous!

 

Kudos for your charming new acquisitions
And thanks for sharing your beautiful pieces!

 

Up here we call it ..The Sault .....( pronounced .... Sue ....and that spoon is really neat !!!!

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Quite the lovely collection !!!!!

 

The high quality of the Sault spoon surprises me. Someone either was mightily impressed by the locks or had enough money not to care. It's not like going to Rome or Paris.

 

Thanks, guys! Was so happy to win the lot with the Børs and Merrill Shops pieces, and for much less than I was willing to pay. Run across the whist bon-bons occasionally, but had only seen the sugar spoon at the Norsk Folkemuseum, made by Christian Børs' son Torbjørn L. S. Børs - there is one T. Børs piece with the stem straightened out offered for sale as a 'c.1820 Swedish mote spoon' (mote spoons have pierced bowls) - an interesting description since T. Børs was Norwegian, born in 1819, his mark registered in 1852...

~Cheryl


https://digitaltmuseum.no/011023184907/skje

 

They are all beautiful but I love the blue David Anderson spoon!!

 

I looked at this collection with great pleasure. Thank you very much.

 

WOW!! WONDERFUL Collection!!!! Delightful to see as well, with great photos!! And the "whist" bon-bon spoon is very neat!!!

 

Thanks! They're quite functional, tuck the index finger into the loop, hold in place with the thumb, very stable - the ones with a smooth stem rather than twisted are a bit more comfortable.

Heh, You'd be surprised at the locations commemorated on souvenir spoons, my first, purchased as a teenager, was a lovely Watson lily of the valley pattern with an etched scene of Joliet Penitentiary in the bowl.

These spoons aren't common, and I hadn't added one to my collection because I'm basically pretty thrifty, but this one was a good buy. Posting a link to a 2016 auction of a collection, they apparently took the owner's word that they were all probably produced by Denver firm H.H. Tammen circa 1892-95, on the basis of an ad that doesn't mention spoons - personally have never seen evidence that Tammen produced souvenir spoons prior to the early 20th century (sterling, no agate), and their 1894 catalog neither mentions nor pictures spoons. They also claim Tammen marketed their agate spoons at the Columbian Exposition, but can't recall seeing any similar spoons indicating they were souvenirs of the fair, nor any mention that Tammen was an exhibitor.

Colorado Springs "lapidist and manufacturing jeweler" Fred H. Horn patented the two designs shown below in 1893, as well as a simpler design in 1892 - I have several simple ads of his dating from 1890 to 1896, when he stated he was moving and would "sell anything in the store at big discount", the business was reported sold in 1897. He only took 3-1/2 year design patents, so they would have been fair game by 1897, perhaps Tammen or someone else continued production...

https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/Cowboys-Indians-Miners_as42334_p6

Such an elegant design, a classic really - one of my references says Gustav Gaudernack designed it for David Andersen...


~Cheryl

 

It's always a pleasure to see some of your spoon collections!

 

Enjoyed your collection. Funny i have been around the antiqueing world for over 40 years and I have never seen a sugar spoon like yours. Learned something new again.