What is a caddy spoon for?

It measures dry tea out of a caddy, so the handle is short and the bowl broad. Nothing about it suits eating. The form is the single commonest named type on Sellingantiques, appearing in roughly a fifth of titles, and the bowls take all sorts of shapes: shovel, leaf, jockey cap, vine leaf, filigree, frying-pan, some with mother-of-pearl handles.

Are these spoons sold singly or in sets?

Both. Single specialist spoons carry a large part of the category, and "pair" appears in titles more often than "six". Cased and boxed sets are a branch of their own, mainly sets of six coffee, tea or grapefruit spoons, many with guilloche enamel handles. Sets of six and twelve with their original cases recur through the upper half of the sampled range.

How old are silver spoons on Sellingantiques?

The dealer-entered dates run from 1700 to 1960, with Georgian and Victorian the two commonest period labels and Edwardian third. Twentieth-century decades are well represented, the 1930s most of all, so this is not a purely antique heading. At the other end, the samples include 17th-century seal-top, trefid and slip-top spoons, and one Elizabethan seal-top dated 1585.

Which assay offices turn up on these spoons?

London and Birmingham are the two named most often in titles. Provincial marks are a real seam rather than a curiosity. Exeter, Newcastle, Chester and York appear, along with Scottish provincial towns including Aberdeen, Inverness, Elgin and Dundee, and Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Elgin and St Andrews are among the scarcest to surface.

Is all of it English sterling silver?

Sterling dominates, with "sterling" and "solid" between them accounting for a large share of titles against a small number saying plated or EPNS. Roughly one sampled piece in ten is not English. Scottish and Irish silver is well represented, and beyond Britain there is Norwegian 830S, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Russian cloisonné, American, Chinese export, Indian and New Zealand work.

What are the unusual types worth knowing about?

Condiment ware often arrives with its spoon still in it, so mustard pots, salts and cayenne pepper bottles sit inside the category. Then there are the one-offs that turn up once and not again: a moustache spoon, a folding spoon and fork, a runcible spoon-fork, a Maori jade-handled spoon, a laudanum spoon with a devil terminal, and a shoe-shaped spoon warmer. Christmas spoons dated year by year form a small run too.

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Small silver spoons made for one job at table, from measuring tea out of a caddy to serving berries, dusting sugar or lifting salt and mustard.

Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Fiddle Pattern Sauce Ladle - 1848

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Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Fiddle Pattern Sauce Ladle - 1848

From S & A Marsh

£165

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1900 - 1920

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Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Serving Spoon & Fork Set in Case 1908

From Robert Bush Antiques

£395

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18th century

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Georgian Sterling Silver Soup Ladle, Old English Pattern, London 1800

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£350

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19th century

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Victorian Silver Serving Spoon

From In A Nutshell Antiques and Interiors

£265

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C1711 Rare Provincial Dognose Tablespoon Possibly East Anglia 42g Dated 1711

18th century

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C1711 Rare Provincial Dognose Tablespoon Possibly East Anglia 42g Dated 1711

From Dudley Antique Silver

£360

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18th century

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Set of Six George III Sterling Silver Bright-cut Teaspoons, London 1795

From Touch of Time Antiques

£295

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18th century

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Large Georgian Silver Serving Ladle

From In A Nutshell Antiques and Interiors

£395

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18th century

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Pair of Georgian Silver Ladles

From In A Nutshell Antiques and Interiors

£250

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1900 - 1920

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Unusual Cased Pair of Silver "Quaich" Novelty Salts by Josiah Williams & Co, London 1917

From Julie Cartwright Antiques

£275

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19th century

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Pair of Large Ornate Victorian Spoons

From In A Nutshell Antiques and Interiors

£225

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Provincial assay towns run right through the Sellingantiques archive: Exeter, Newcastle, Chester and York, plus Aberdeen, Inverness, Elgin and Dundee.

1775 Rare Irish Georgian Hook End Basting Spoon by John Craig Nice Crest 120g

18th century

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1775 Rare Irish Georgian Hook End Basting Spoon by John Craig Nice Crest 120g

From Dudley Antique Silver

£460

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19th century

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Fabulous Victorian Silver Mustard Pot by Charles & George Fox, London 1850

From Julie Cartwright Antiques

£325

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18th century

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Pair of Georgian Sterling Silver Fenwick Family Crested Berry Serving Spoons 1815

From The Silver Squirrel

£245

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19th century

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Antique Victorian Silver Plated Nautilus Shell Spoon Warmer - Circa 1890

From Kingsdown Antiques

£275

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Antique Edwardian Tea Caddy with Lion Mask Handles and Spoon – Circa 1905

1900 - 1920

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Antique Edwardian Tea Caddy with Lion Mask Handles and Spoon – Circa 1905

From Kingsdown Antiques

£165

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18th century

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Georgian Silver Marrow Scoop

From In A Nutshell Antiques and Interiors

£195

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Antique Silver Spoons

Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Fiddle Pattern Sauce Ladle - 1848

Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Serving Spoon & Fork Set in Case 1908

Georgian Sterling Silver Soup Ladle, Old English Pattern, London 1800

Victorian Silver Serving Spoon

C1711 Rare Provincial Dognose Tablespoon Possibly East Anglia 42g Dated 1711

Set of Six George III Sterling Silver Bright-cut Teaspoons, London 1795

Large Georgian Silver Serving Ladle

Pair of Georgian Silver Ladles

Unusual Cased Pair of Silver "Quaich" Novelty Salts by Josiah Williams & Co, London 1917

Pair of Large Ornate Victorian Spoons

1775 Rare Irish Georgian Hook End Basting Spoon by John Craig Nice Crest 120g

Fabulous Victorian Silver Mustard Pot by Charles & George Fox, London 1850

Pair of Georgian Sterling Silver Fenwick Family Crested Berry Serving Spoons 1815

Antique Victorian Silver Plated Nautilus Shell Spoon Warmer - Circa 1890

Antique Edwardian Tea Caddy with Lion Mask Handles and Spoon – Circa 1905

Georgian Silver Marrow Scoop

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