The introduction of dining services in the 18 th century brought a proliferation of different types - serving spoons, basting spoons, ladles, mote spoons, marrow scoops. As spoons became more specific ...
Your ladle was made by Mead & Adriance, active in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1836 to 1842. Your spoon is in the “fiddle” pattern, a generic and popular style used by many makers of 19th-century ...