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SusanT Posts: 104 Registered: Nov 2005	posted 07-02-2006 05:48 PM [26-1125] I have a “Shell I” by Towle silverplate piece that we had always thought was a casserole spoon. A good friend of my mother’s gave it to her as a hostess gift in the earlier 1970s. This friend bought it for her in an antique shop near Kitchener, Ont, Canada. The other day someone suggested it might be a tea caddy spoon. Ours is 7” long. Tea caddy spoons I have seen tend to be shorter around 4”-5” and casserole spoons longer around 9”-10”. Description of ours: Length 7". The bowl is round, gold-washed, etched flower and leaves, repousse elongated oblong shapes and part of its edge is scalloped. The spoon has a nearly illegible monogram ("TL, "H", or "T"???). Plain arched handle except for shell motif at tip; tip bent up. Stamped: "Towle Mf'g Co.", "Pat. 1888". Is this a casserole spoon or a tea caddy spoon? TIA. --- Susan IP: Logged
Tad Hale Posts: 120 Registered: Jul 2005	posted 07-02-2006 10:45 PM Susan, It is neither a Casserole nor a Tea Caddy Spoon. I would say it was a Preserve Spoon. Tad IP: Logged
SusanT Posts: 104 Registered: Nov 2005	posted 07-03-2006 12:19 AM Tad, >I would say it was a Preserve Spoon.< I bet you're right!! At first I thought you meant a jelly server which I knew it was not. Then on "googling" preserve spoon, up popped ones of this shape and length. I found one online by Towle in the "Clover" pattern that is identical in bowl shape and length and nearly identical in bowl design. They call theirs "silver berry or preserves spoon". Thank you! --- Susan IP: Logged

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