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1709-1830 SILVER GREAT BRITAIN GEORGIAN TODDY RARE COIN LADLE
OUTSTANDING ENGLISHGEORGIAN ERA COIN SILVER TODDY LADLE WITH ENGLISH SIX PENCE SET INTO THE BOWL.
BALEEN TURNEDSPIRAL HANDLE WITH SILVER OVERLAY.
LADLE:
SILVER FINE ROUNDED BOWL WITH SILVER STEM FITTING.\'TWISTED BARLEY\" BALEEN HANDLE. INSET COIN AT BOTTOM OF BOWL.
12 3/4\" IN LENGTH (10 3/4\" BALEEN HANDLE,90 MM SILVER STEM); BOWL IS51 MM IN DIAMETER AT RIM
TOTAL WEIGHT: 39 GRAMS
COIN:
*1757 SILVER SIXPENCE*
OBV: BUST OF GEORGE II.
REV:CROWNED SHIELD IN CRUCIFORM.
CONTAINS SILVER
20mm IN DIAMETER
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH TIGHT FITTINGS & SOCKETSAND GOOD HANDLES/STEMSCONSIDERINGTHEIR AGE.
SPIKED PUNCH(TODDY) WAS THE POPULAR AND SOCIAL FASHIONABLE DRINK OF CHOICE FORGEORGIAN ENGLAND, INTRODUCED IN THE MID 17th CENTURY, AND MADE FROM WATER, SUGAR, LIMES OR LEMONS, SPICES AND ALCOHOLIC SPIRITS. DURING THE 17th CENTURY, ROUND HEAVY SILVER LADLES & HANDLES WERE USED TO DISPENSE PUNCH, BUT BY THE18th CENTURY, SILVER HAD BECOME SCARCE.
LIGHTER BOWLS, MANY MADE FROMA COIN, HAND HAMMERED OUTAND SHAPED TO RAISE A BOWL AND FITTED WITH NON-SILVER HANDLES WERE INTRODUCED. INSET COINS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWLWERE OFTENADDEDTO ENHANCE THE ORNAMENTATIONAND OSTENTATION, OR EVEN PERHAPS,TO INCLUDE A \"LUCKY\" COIN, OR A COIN WITHA SIGNIFICANT DATE OF A SPECIALOR PERSONAL EVENT.
THE HANDLES WERE MADE OF VARIOUS MATERIALS SUCH AS WOOD, IVORY AND WHALEBONE (CALLEDBALEEN, WHICH WAS NOT ACTUALLY BONE BUT PART OF THE WHALE\'S FILTRATION/FEEDING SYSTEM THAT WAS MALEABLE AND EASILY SHAPED IN ITS RAWPREPARED STATE AND HARDWHEN DRIED). BALEEN WAS TRADITIONALLY TURNEDINTO A \"TWISTED BARLEY\" PATTERN.
NOT ONLY FASHIONABLE STATEMENTS OF GEORGIAN ELEGANCE, TODDY LADLES WERE ALSO APPARENTLY POPULAR HOLIDAY AND ST. VALENTINE\'S DAY GIFTS OF THE PERIOD. IN THE SPECIE STARVED AMERICAN COLONIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, TODDY LADLES SUCH AS THESE BECAME CHERISHED ITEMS OF WEALTH, STATUS AND CIVILITY.
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