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doc Posts: 728 |
posted 01-10-2006 02:27 PM
  
This past weekend, I found a coin spoon that is the same squared off form as a salt shovel, but is the size of a sugar spoon. I was wondering whether this design was used for sugar as well as for salt-I've never seen it before. I took a picture of it, but unfortunately, the size perspective is lost. I'll post another shortly with an example of a salt shovel next to it to see the difference. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-10-2006 02:49 PM
Yes, these are fairly common. Here are a salt and sugar by O. D. Seymour The sugar measures 6 1/4 inches long. I have also seen serving spoons in this form, but suspect they are fairly rare. IP: Logged |
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doc Posts: 728 |
posted 01-11-2006 09:14 AM
As always, thank you wev. I am surprised that I haven't seen one before, but I hadn't. Of course, now this means that I will see them everywhere! IP: Logged |
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tmockait Posts: 963 |
posted 01-11-2006 04:01 PM
Here's a sugar shovel made in Exeter in the early 19th c. Also very similar to yours: Tom IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 01-13-2006 06:00 PM
tmockait- You mention that your sugar shovel was made in Exeter. Is that in England or here in the states somewhere? At ONC we occasionally make sugar shovels, though they are not as popular as regular sugar spoons. IP: Logged |
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tmockait Posts: 963 |
posted 01-13-2006 07:10 PM
Middletom, Exeter, England. Here is the forum thread where my spoon was discussed if you are interested: The spoon is 5 1/2" long, and the shovel is 1 1/4" wide - too big for a salt spoon even for a saltaholic like me! Tom IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 01-15-2006 08:12 PM
I asked which Exeter because I live in Exeter, New Hampshire, and there were a few silversmiths here in the eighteenth and ninteenth centuries. They were members of the Gilman family, early settlers of this area, so I thought perhaps your shovel might have been made here. IP: Logged |
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Russell Posts: 52 |
posted 01-30-2006 08:16 PM
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, This may not be pertinent but I have a sterling silver shovel spoon, 4 inches long. I believe it was made in Dublin, by Jason LeBasse, in 1835. The marks are: King's head; Brittania; Harp; date letter P, maker's mark I(pellet)L(pellet)B, in a rectangle. Russell IP: Logged |
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