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.

1900 - 1920

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Antique 3 Piece Silver Cruet Set

From In A Nutshell Antiques and Interiors

£115

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1900 - 1920

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Edwardian Silver Caddy Spoon Sheffield 1903

From Aramis Antiques

£185

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1920 - 1940

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Silver Cutlery Set.

From George James Antiques

£5,295

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1900 - 1920

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A Handsome Pair of Edwardian Silver Salad Servers

From Jeff Sims Antiques

£225

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1900 - 1920

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Swedish Solid Silver Large Sugar Sifter Spoon / Strainer Ladle 1903 Antique 54g

From The Silver Squirrel

£140

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19th century

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Pair of Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Jam / Preserve Spoons 1900

From Robert Bush Antiques

£245

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1940 - 1960

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An Arts & Crafts Boxed Set of Scottish Silver Demi-tasse Spoons Set with Semi-precious Stones

From Andrew Cox Antiques

£310

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1900 - 1920

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Set of Six Scottish Silver Grapefruit Spoons by Hamilton & Inches, Edinburgh 1923

From Touch of Time Antiques

£285

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1920 - 1940

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Large 40g Worshipful Company of Harberdashers Sterling Silver Spoon 1934 Connell

From The Silver Squirrel

£185

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19th century

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Antique Silver Sugar Shovel Hallmarked Newcastle 1841 John Walton

From Woodbridge Antiques

£120

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

1940 - 1960

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Silver Caddy Spoon

From Digby Antiques (Wiltshire)

£115

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1900 - 1920

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Sterling Silver Mustard Pot in the Form of a Thistle

From Piers Rankin Antique Silver

£255

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19th century

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Antique Sugar Casting Spoon, Dutch, Silver, Sifter, Import Hallmarks, Victorian

From London Fine Antiques

£595

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18th century

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Georgian Silver Serving Spoon

From In A Nutshell Antiques and Interiors

£195

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1900 - 1920

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Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Sugar Basket / Urn with Lid 1906

From Robert Bush Antiques

£1,295

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1920 - 1940

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Unusual Sterling Silver Medicine Spoon Medical Doctors 1934 Antique

From The Silver Squirrel

£135

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Antique Silver Spoons

Antique 3 Piece Silver Cruet Set

Edwardian Silver Caddy Spoon Sheffield 1903

Silver Cutlery Set.

A Handsome Pair of Edwardian Silver Salad Servers

Swedish Solid Silver Large Sugar Sifter Spoon / Strainer Ladle 1903 Antique 54g

Pair of Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Jam / Preserve Spoons 1900

An Arts & Crafts Boxed Set of Scottish Silver Demi-tasse Spoons Set with Semi-precious Stones

Set of Six Scottish Silver Grapefruit Spoons by Hamilton & Inches, Edinburgh 1923

Large 40g Worshipful Company of Harberdashers Sterling Silver Spoon 1934 Connell

Antique Silver Sugar Shovel Hallmarked Newcastle 1841 John Walton

Silver Caddy Spoon

Sterling Silver Mustard Pot in the Form of a Thistle

Antique Sugar Casting Spoon, Dutch, Silver, Sifter, Import Hallmarks, Victorian

Georgian Silver Serving Spoon

Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Sugar Basket / Urn with Lid 1906

Unusual Sterling Silver Medicine Spoon Medical Doctors 1934 Antique

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