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 Solid Silver Sauce Ladle – Victorian 1865 – Ornate Scrollwork

19th century

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Antique Solid Silver Sauce Ladle – Victorian 1865 – Ornate Scrollwork

From Bushells Antiques

£525

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1900 - 1920

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Cased Harrods London Set of 6 David Andersen Silver Enamel Spoons Norway Ca 1900

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£325

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19th century

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Antique William IV Sterling Silver Ice Cream Server

From AC Silver

£1,695

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19th century

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Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Queen's Pattern Soup Ladle by Mary Chawner (1837)

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£1,950

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19th century

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Victorian Silver Caddy Spoon - George Unite

From Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)

£115

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18th century

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Antique George III York Sterling Silver Old English Pattern Gravy Straining Spoon (1790)

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£2,250

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18th century

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Rare Georgian Hallmarked Silver Jockey Cap Caddy Spoon C.1798

From The Fancy Fox

£445

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C1707 Very Rare West Country Lace Back Tablespoon by John Pike of Plymouth

18th century

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C1707 Very Rare West Country Lace Back Tablespoon by John Pike of Plymouth

From Dudley Antique Silver

£780

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19th century

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Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Queens Pattern Gravy Spoons

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£3,950

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1900 - 1920

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Antique Arts & Crafts Silver Spoon - Amy Sandheim

From The Silver Cabinet

£295

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

19th century

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Scottish Georgian Silver Toddy Ladle.

From Beech and Springs Antiques

£110

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18th century

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Fine George II Silver Mote Spoon C.1730

From The Fancy Fox

£245

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19th century

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Silver Mustard Pot - Ruby Red Liner

From Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)

£295

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1900 - 1920

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Set of 4 Antique Sterling Silver Salts & Spoons in Case 1909

From Robert Bush Antiques

£595

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1900 - 1920

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Edwardian Silver Caddy Spoon Sheffield 1908

From Aramis Antiques

£135

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19th century

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Victorian Antique Silver Sugar Bowl and Sifter Spoon Set, London 1883

From Highland Antiques Ltd

£895

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Antique Silver Spoons

Antique Solid Silver Sauce Ladle – Victorian 1865 – Ornate Scrollwork

Cased Harrods London Set of 6 David Andersen Silver Enamel Spoons Norway Ca 1900

Antique William IV Sterling Silver Ice Cream Server

Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Queen's Pattern Soup Ladle by Mary Chawner (1837)

Victorian Silver Caddy Spoon - George Unite

Antique George III York Sterling Silver Old English Pattern Gravy Straining Spoon (1790)

Rare Georgian Hallmarked Silver Jockey Cap Caddy Spoon C.1798

C1707 Very Rare West Country Lace Back Tablespoon by John Pike of Plymouth

Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Queens Pattern Gravy Spoons

Antique Arts & Crafts Silver Spoon - Amy Sandheim

Scottish Georgian Silver Toddy Ladle.

Fine George II Silver Mote Spoon C.1730

Silver Mustard Pot - Ruby Red Liner

Set of 4 Antique Sterling Silver Salts & Spoons in Case 1909

Edwardian Silver Caddy Spoon Sheffield 1908

Victorian Antique Silver Sugar Bowl and Sifter Spoon Set, London 1883

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