New Teaspoon Advice Please
Discussion
Turn7 said:
Tbh, Im getting a little tired of the "Krapp phenomenon" and would love this fora to get back to basics, and start to appreciate the TRUE early Spoonists...
To much time and money is wasted chasing so called German quality, when many,many other houses have created Spoons of far higher quality....
Blib, I blame you for this really...
As an example, and I guess, many will sneer at - this Mary Chawner is a heavy, early 19th-century Georgian-William IV solid sterling silver large tea spoon made by the sought after female silversmiths Mary Chawner. King's pattern. Full English silver hallmarks.
A heavy teaspoon. Genuine 183-year-old antique silver spoon.
Wow! To much time and money is wasted chasing so called German quality, when many,many other houses have created Spoons of far higher quality....
Blib, I blame you for this really...
As an example, and I guess, many will sneer at - this Mary Chawner is a heavy, early 19th-century Georgian-William IV solid sterling silver large tea spoon made by the sought after female silversmiths Mary Chawner. King's pattern. Full English silver hallmarks.
A heavy teaspoon. Genuine 183-year-old antique silver spoon.
That is a truly outstanding example of the pioneering innovative and world-leading introduction of those flange/shaft interface strakelets for improved vortex control.
Not only was it decades ahead of any competitors, it was the work of a female designer years before the Suffragettes caused a stir.
You have to hand it to her, there was definitely something about Mary.
glenrobbo said:
Bright Halo said:
Yes. 
21st Century Man said:
Turn7 said:
Tbh, Im getting a little tired of the "Krapp phenomenon" and would love this fora to get back to basics
I agree, this forum has become far too Krupp centric, Herr Blib yanks chains and gets the response he desires. The attention whoring has got to stop.wolfracesonic said:
I conker
conquer concur, though you do have to hand it to Blib, his marketing is of the highest order, if you were to approach someone on the high street and asked them to name a brand of competitive stirring spoon, chances are the name Krupp would be first out of their mouth, that’s if you could find anyone on the high street at the moment. His efforts at promotion make those of Red Bull, Coca Cola et al look like a hand painted wooden sign propped up against the entrance of the village fete. Blib’s modus operandi seems to be to sell the sizzle not the sausage and I sincerely believe the Chawner at the top of the page is what the thread needs more of, not yet more over hyped, under developed marketing fluff.
I found some fluff in my belly button this morning, but that's not important right now. I do agree that we should focus more on the sausage. That's what Ms. Chawner would have wanted back in the day.
So if anyone would like to read a post without mention of the bloody ‘K’ word, this might be for you. A few friends and myself have just returned from an urb-ex trip to the old L’Anglade factory on the outskirts of Paris, in the hope of finding some lost forgotten gem.
Our hopes weren’t high to be honest, many a spoonist having visited with same idea since L’Anglade’s sad demise in the 70s; but whaddaya know! I found this little gem lurking in an old dust covered drawer.
A L’Anglade poignant en plastique 66. Granted it isn’t from their glory days, more a dying ray of light from a setting sun, a stir of echoes from times long left behind, if you will. I’ve given it a mild refresh and it’s all set to be displayed in my ‘Quirks and curios’ display. See, no mention of Krupp.
ETA Bugger!
Our hopes weren’t high to be honest, many a spoonist having visited with same idea since L’Anglade’s sad demise in the 70s; but whaddaya know! I found this little gem lurking in an old dust covered drawer.
A L’Anglade poignant en plastique 66. Granted it isn’t from their glory days, more a dying ray of light from a setting sun, a stir of echoes from times long left behind, if you will. I’ve given it a mild refresh and it’s all set to be displayed in my ‘Quirks and curios’ display. See, no mention of Krupp.
ETA Bugger!
I have a looming crisis, and I don't know what to do.
Thanks to reading the 250+ pages of this thread, I believe I have absorbed a small but significant amount of the teaspooners wisdom such that I can stir tea with at least a semblance of competency, using the appropriate teaspoon for the task in (the right) hand.
However, this weekend we now have a potential visitor, viz an aged Uncle. The social distancing is not the issue per se, because we do of course have long-shafted teaspoons, but said visitor has in the past expressed a preference for imbibing cof-fee. I am not sure what cof-fee actually is like these days, not consuming it since my last Machu Pichu hike in search of the long lost Inca spoons back in '74 (see my post on the SpoonersRUS forum, exploration sub-forum, Peru thread page 187, if you are not already entirely familiar with that), but it is obvious even to me that a teaspoon is entirely unsuitable for stirring said cof-fee, and try as I might I cannot see any further guidance on this esteemed forum.
Am I to dismiss the aged relative out of hand to avoid this crisis, thereby similarly dismissing the expected inheritance?
I can see an unexpected assassination might resolve the problem from one, or even two, points of view, or is there some more subtle way out?
I am beginning to see the Litvinenko incident in a slightly different light these days...
Thanks to reading the 250+ pages of this thread, I believe I have absorbed a small but significant amount of the teaspooners wisdom such that I can stir tea with at least a semblance of competency, using the appropriate teaspoon for the task in (the right) hand.
However, this weekend we now have a potential visitor, viz an aged Uncle. The social distancing is not the issue per se, because we do of course have long-shafted teaspoons, but said visitor has in the past expressed a preference for imbibing cof-fee. I am not sure what cof-fee actually is like these days, not consuming it since my last Machu Pichu hike in search of the long lost Inca spoons back in '74 (see my post on the SpoonersRUS forum, exploration sub-forum, Peru thread page 187, if you are not already entirely familiar with that), but it is obvious even to me that a teaspoon is entirely unsuitable for stirring said cof-fee, and try as I might I cannot see any further guidance on this esteemed forum.
Am I to dismiss the aged relative out of hand to avoid this crisis, thereby similarly dismissing the expected inheritance?
I can see an unexpected assassination might resolve the problem from one, or even two, points of view, or is there some more subtle way out?
I am beginning to see the Litvinenko incident in a slightly different light these days...
Coffee is of course complete filth, even the most ardent coffee fan will shamelessly admit this, unless deluded.
Each to their own, in principle there is little difference, other than viscosity and specific gravity, a somewhat liberal view I know, but nothing that amounts to more than a sugar or two.
Martini anyone? Stirred, not shaken.
I'm sorry, I've been drinking.
Each to their own, in principle there is little difference, other than viscosity and specific gravity, a somewhat liberal view I know, but nothing that amounts to more than a sugar or two.
Martini anyone? Stirred, not shaken.
I'm sorry, I've been drinking.
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