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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 349423, member: 111"]Your link shows a spoon for serving honey (have one similar in pewter somewhere around here), the spoon bowl would have the lip facing down into whatever it rests on rather than upside down and the honey drips in.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were/are a lot of ancient Roman spoons found in the UK, this is just a set of novelty coffee or tea spoons (depending on the size) based on one of them, and there are different theories on the reason for the cochlearium form, but they were undoubtedly used for eating...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 349423, member: 111"]Your link shows a spoon for serving honey (have one similar in pewter somewhere around here), the spoon bowl would have the lip facing down into whatever it rests on rather than upside down and the honey drips in. There were/are a lot of ancient Roman spoons found in the UK, this is just a set of novelty coffee or tea spoons (depending on the size) based on one of them, and there are different theories on the reason for the cochlearium form, but they were undoubtedly used for eating... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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