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Sugar Bowls
Anne:
Thank you Bernard. I checked the lid again in case I'd missed a mark but there is nothing on the lid either.
Anne:
This is an old old topic resurrected, as I spotted what I thought to be also a sugar tong bowl but it has a sprung spoon instead of tongs like mine: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300207110659
Is the spoon version still intended for sugar or would it have been for something else? And are the spoon versions less common than the tongs? (I've not seen the spoon version before.)
Ivo:
Misssed this thread the first time around, thank you for rekindling. So what about this one, then. The lid is silver plate and has tons of marks, the whole thing has tons of quality.
Bernard C:
Anne — Like you, I've never seen a sprung spoon before. That's quite the weirdest implement I've ever seen. How did they manage to persuade someone to buy that. It must have been brilliant salesmanship! How about one of a set? You can sell anything, however impractical, if it's one of a set. My OH's matching stainless steel palette knife, ladle, and potato masher set has a point at the end of each handle (think about it). ... and I don't recognise the pattern.
Ivo — Can't read the marks on the lid. Have you checked Mappin? The pattern could be Walsh — I have a marked trinket box in a similar pattern that I can't find in Reynolds. The difficulty is that it's one of those fairly universal patterns that several glassworks could have made. Walsh marks can be very faint. Needs a perfect base star — any irregularity and it's not Walsh. Could it be pressed?
Bernard C. 8)
Ivo:
Definitely cut crystal, not pressed. There are 2 hallmarks on the outside of the lid, one says "wL*g" the other "A".
The text on the mechanism reads
E.P.N.S. Pat. No. 14048/15
The S.O.S. Pascall's Patents
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