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silverhunter

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iconnumber posted 09-19-2007 05:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverhunter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Today I just bought this little sugar spoon,
reading the information from it, I became curious about the back ground information from this one.

I started with research and was surprised about all information. I just read some articles about it. The sugar spoon belonged or was named after a steam ship called : "SS STRATHEDEN".

I hope that I'm right that the company was P&O, and that this ship transported and traveled between for instance Malta - Australia and is used for transport Australian soldiers, nurses and goods in WW2
to England.

I don't know which year this ship is made and if this ship ended his history?

My question about this (I think) silvered spoon is :

    Can this spoon be used on board of this ship or did somebody bought it in a souvenir shop on board or in a harbor city where this ship belonged (somewhere in Australia?).

I found this beautiful spoon under a lot of second hand spoons and forks etc.and this gives such a lot of information.

I send also a photo of the ship.

Greetings Silverhunter.

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jersey

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iconnumber posted 09-19-2007 07:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jersey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hello!
Hope this helps.
  • SS Stratheden -- 1937 -- 1967
  • Steamship 24000 tons
  • One of P&O's best known ships for many years was the 24,000-ton Stratheden, which reopened the company's Australian service after the Second World War.
  • She was in a class of five vessels which were called the "Strath'' liners.
  • Stratheden went from Vickers Armstrong in Barrow and was launched June 10, 1937.
  • She had a speed of about 19 knots. There was room for 527 first-class and 453 tourist-class passengers. There were 653 crew members.
  • Her service in war was as a troopship she carried 149,687 servicemen and civilians and steamed nearly half a million miles.
In 1950 she was used by Cunard and made four round trips between Southampton and New York.

In 1967, she was known as the Marianna Latsi. 2 years later she was broken up for scrap.

Jersey

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FredZ

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iconnumber posted 09-19-2007 10:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FredZ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Has all the looks of a souvenier spoon. The bowl is a bit unual and I have seen souvenier spoons in all sizes and shapes. Is it marked? That might give you a clue.

Fred

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silverhunter

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2007 05:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverhunter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
At first Jersey thanks (again!!!!!!) for reaction about this subject. It is very clear and interesting information. I will print it out and lay it with the spoon at a special place. I'm helped a lot with it.
There is a lot of information about this ship that's for sure.

I think like Fredz reaction, it will be a souvenir spoon perhaps bought on board, or somewhere in a souvenir shop. I didn't find a number or letter on it, so it will be no spoon used on board I think!

So in a record time the solution is gaven and many thanks for that.

Greetings Silverhunter and enjoy the hobby!

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Kimo

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2007 09:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kimo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Collecting souvenir spoons is a very large area within the silver collecting hobby. Because there are thousands and thousands of different ones, most souvenir spoon collectors try to specialize in one theme, such as spoons from ships (like yours), or spoons from certain cities or countries, or spoons with certain kinds of designs such as animals or American indians or whatever, or spoons with enamel on them, or spoons made by certain makers, etc.

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silverhunter

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2007 11:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverhunter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes, Kimo everything is collectable even money by thousands,ore some more.(That's also a nice hobby, only not mine). I only spend a few dollars(dutch euro's) to buy sometimes little silver/plated objects. It's my sport to collect silver at low prices, research about it and the possibility to put some questions at this forum is great. In Holland there are(like also in the world) bourses for exchanges (I hope I write it well!) I think each article is a collectable item. Last time I visited a little city called DELFT in the south west part of Holland. Each weekend until the last weekend in September there are three markets one about second hand stuff, one art market and a market about articles from Asia. It nice to visit these markets but I always wondering about the fact, that for instance silver objects are be sold by a few hundred market sellers.

Bad quality and far to high prices.

But nice to look between all that silver, once I saw a jat (Hebrew silver article) also possible for to buy, but it was a antique dealer who rent a little stand.

I just gonna look at the British television program called flog it, and I also can learn from that program. I don't have a satellite receiver I think in the USA they also show this kind of programs.

Perhaps is this spoon will be showed by a collector.

Greetings,
Silverhunter.

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Kimo

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iconnumber posted 09-22-2007 09:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kimo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes, there are several different television shows that are similar to "Flog It". The best known one is "Antiques Roadshow" which has two versions - one that is filmed in the USA and the other that is filmed in the UK. There are also other UK filmed ones called "Bargain Hunt" and "Cash in the Attic". There are others that are less well known.

The best known ones - the two versions of "Antiques Roadshow" are perhaps the ones that many knowledgable silver collectors find the most silly since their experts seem to want to provide sensational values that typically do not reflect the actual values. Proclaiming incredibly high values that do not reflect the market values makes for exciting television but it does not really help people who would like to know what to expect when they go to sell their things. One trick they often like to use is to give a high value and then quietly say 'insurance value'. Insurance values are designed to be double what a customer would be charged for something in the most expensive antique shops in the most expensive cities of the world. If you were to turn off the television camera and ask that expert what they personally would pay for it they would offer somewhere between 10 to 25 percent of the value they gave. If you want to learn about values, you need to watch the shows where the objects are sold in real auctions, and even then you should realize that the prices there might be slightly high since the bidders in those auctions know they are on television and might be bidding a little extra to get on camera. The most honest places to go to learn about real values are auctions in your own area to learn local values, and the large internet auction site to learn world wide values.

[This message has been edited by Kimo (edited 09-22-2007).]

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silverhunter

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iconnumber posted 09-22-2007 02:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverhunter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's for sure Kimo, I have read your reaction a few times because it's a lot of information. I just thought that I have sent my reaction but I think I made a mistake. I try it again, later in the evening I will react more about your information. This afternoon I found a book called: Sotheby's founded 1744.

Title: Sotheby's founded 1744. The Jaime Ortiz-Patino Collection. 18th century French and English Silver. New York Thursday, may 21,1992. It's founded between a lot of books, but I think someone who are more interested about these kind of silver work can be helped with it.

Please give your opinion about this, it's for instance possible to give my e-mail address for this transaction. I will send it for free, so if you are interested?

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silverhunter

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iconnumber posted 09-22-2007 05:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverhunter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Kimo,

I've read your reaction twice. I understand what you mean. On a auction the bids can be done by experts or antiquarians, or people just learning about auction. One thing is for sure , you need at least two experts/antiquarians how will let rise the price.

What you told about the television programs I recognized that by seeing the shows in auction room/hall. Some prices slowly bids by 5,- or fast bids by hundred. Here in Holland we have only one program called:

    between art& second hand junk (free translated). Also there are experts in this program who give good expertise about articles people bring in the program.

Jewelery, Silver, Old books, Jugendstil materials, watches/clocks, paintings, foreign art, etc. It's always nice if somebody brings a article bought for a couple of dollars and it seems to be a high priced article. In one of the programs they discovered a etch made by Rembrandt (17th century). A program without auction is nicer to look at, more information with each showing article.

I have never been to a auction, but in the future I will go.

Don't rise my hands, hold on my head in one position, don't wave to somebody that's gonna be a hard time for me.

Thanks for your reaction,
silverhunter.


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