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SPOON WARMER
Spoon warmer is a dinner-table utensil for keeping warm the bowl of stuffing spoon or a serving spoon. It has the form of a hollow
receptacle with a shaped opening . The bowl of the spoon was inserted through the opening into hot water in the receptacle.
At a time when the kitchens were generally set far from dining rooms, it was of great importance that food be kept warm while being brought
to the rarely heated dining rooms.
Apart from the large variety of dishes that had hot water compartments so the enchanting spoon warmers
were invented.
Filled also with hot water in the kitchen, they were brought to the table along with the serving spoon(s) which were stored
in them until being used and so kept warm.
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These vessels have always something in common in their construction, namely the fact that they stand on feet. Because of this we can assume that they
were filled with hot water. The feet would prevent damage to the precious table surface
Spoon warmers were never part of a mass production and so they rarely appear today. They are absolutely collectable and highly sought after.
I think they were probably not produced in Sterling Silver and most (if not all) spoon warmers were manufactured in the process of Electro
Plating.
They appear in various shapes and themes like various shells sitting on rocks, oval egg-shaped forms placed on feet sometimes with side
or top handles, small boats or redesigned sauceboats.
(text and images published under kind permission of Christian M. Baur/ASCAS).
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