New Teaspoon Advice Please

New Teaspoon Advice Please

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NDA

21,572 posts

225 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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I've just been told that early 'accelerators' are to be banned from competition. My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.

I could modify the torque transfer system which would alter the internal thrust settings - but it seems a shame to modify such an elderly example.


Usget

5,426 posts

211 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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alorotom said:
I completely messed up on this, being on the wrong island of Gran Canaria instead: school boy error some may say but I managed to acquire an immaculate (Nazi gold) Flloydenhoffer recovered from a set of 13 (would you believe) from a bunker hidden in a secluded cove accessed via an underwater cave.

Excited was not the word. I was in panic at whether or not I’d get it through customs and into the U.K. undetected and I managed it via a secret compartment in my hand luggage !

Pics to follow when it’s been prepared, valued and insured accordingly (of course)
Custard or you're a dreamer

KP328

1,812 posts

195 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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NDA said:
I've just been told that early 'accelerators' are to be banned from competition. My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.

I could modify the torque transfer system which would alter the internal thrust settings - but it seems a shame to modify such an elderly example.

Just remember if you modify the torque transfer system, the bowl shape will create a low pressure area causing atomized tea to be drawn from the return flange.

NDA

21,572 posts

225 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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KP328 said:
Just remember if you modify the torque transfer system, the bowl shape will create a low pressure area causing atomized tea to be drawn from the return flange.
I am using this harmonic equation as a potential design idea to modify the TTS.


+ \TTS{1}{2}+\frac{1}{3}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{5}+\cdots =\infty

AstonZagato

12,699 posts

210 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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NDA said:
My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.
We both know that your spoon is not the actual 1762 George II Gold Cup winner. That was lost in a catastrophic stirring accident at Goodwood in the early 19th century. The spoon you have was rebuilt in 1902 using only the left flange of the original and most of the spare 1756 spoon which the great competitive stirrer Lord Masterley used for his more regular tea tastings (but was never used in competiions). It is a very fine spoon but "Gold Cup winner" is a bit of a stretch.

55palfers

5,908 posts

164 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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alorotom said:
I completely messed up on this, being on the wrong island of Gran Canaria instead: school boy error some may say but I managed to acquire an immaculate (Nazi gold) Flloydenhoffer recovered from a set of 13 (would you believe) from a bunker hidden in a secluded cove accessed via an underwater cave.

Excited was not the word. I was in panic at whether or not I’d get it through customs and into the U.K. undetected and I managed it via a secret compartment in my hand luggage !

Pics to follow when it’s been prepared, valued and insured accordingly (of course)
...if I had a Pound for every item of genuine Fuhrer Bunker flatware I've been offered....

NDA

21,572 posts

225 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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AstonZagato said:
NDA said:
My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.
We both know that your spoon is not the actual 1762 George II Gold Cup winner. That was lost in a catastrophic stirring accident at Goodwood in the early 19th century. The spoon you have was rebuilt in 1902 using only the left flange of the original and most of the spare 1756 spoon which the great competitive stirrer Lord Masterley used for his more regular tea tastings (but was never used in competiions). It is a very fine spoon but "Gold Cup winner" is a bit of a stretch.
Setting aside your potentially libellous bile, my spoon ('The George II Campaign Spoon' to give it it's correct title) was not 'lost' at Goodwood - merely damaged.

You stick to your convertible modern stuff and leave the historic utensils to those that know teaspoons from tampons. Hahahahaha. How is your stainless steel coffee spoon collection? Hahahahahahahaahahahaa

KP328

1,812 posts

195 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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NDA said:
I am using this harmonic equation as a potential design idea to modify the TTS.


+ \TTS{1}{2}+\frac{1}{3}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{5}+\cdots =\infty
Beware ! i tried a very similar equation to that and ended up with RSI ( repetitive stirring injury ) after just 50 seconds stirring.

Usget

5,426 posts

211 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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NDA said:
AstonZagato said:
NDA said:
My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.
We both know that your spoon is not the actual 1762 George II Gold Cup winner. That was lost in a catastrophic stirring accident at Goodwood in the early 19th century. The spoon you have was rebuilt in 1902 using only the left flange of the original and most of the spare 1756 spoon which the great competitive stirrer Lord Masterley used for his more regular tea tastings (but was never used in competiions). It is a very fine spoon but "Gold Cup winner" is a bit of a stretch.
Setting aside your potentially libellous bile, my spoon ('The George II Campaign Spoon' to give it it's correct title) was not 'lost' at Goodwood - merely damaged.

You stick to your convertible modern stuff and leave the historic utensils to those that know teaspoons from tampons. Hahahahaha. How is your stainless steel coffee spoon collection? Hahahahahahahaahahahaa
Come on guys. We're better than this. Love and harmony among spooners, yes?

Let's all come together to laugh at the guy who reckons he's bought a genuine Fuhrer bunker spoon.

AstonZagato

12,699 posts

210 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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NDA said:
AstonZagato said:
NDA said:
My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.
We both know that your spoon is not the actual 1762 George II Gold Cup winner. That was lost in a catastrophic stirring accident at Goodwood in the early 19th century. The spoon you have was rebuilt in 1902 using only the left flange of the original and most of the spare 1756 spoon which the great competitive stirrer Lord Masterley used for his more regular tea tastings (but was never used in competiions). It is a very fine spoon but "Gold Cup winner" is a bit of a stretch.
Setting aside your potentially libellous bile, my spoon ('The George II Campaign Spoon' to give it it's correct title) was not 'lost' at Goodwood - merely damaged.
Given that the mangled remnants of the original The George II Campaign Spoon would have fitted on the back of a postage stamp "merely damaged" is a masterfull understatement. Furthermore, Archie (the current Lord Masterley) also claims to have the GiiCS (rebuilt using part of the remaining shaft).
I don't think you'll sue - you have too much to lose.

NDA said:
You stick to your convertible modern stuff and leave the historic utensils to those that know teaspoons from tampons. Hahahahaha. How is your stainless steel coffee spoon collection? Hahahahahahahaahahahaa
Now, now. Just because my modern superspoons can stir their way around your classic stuff when handled by even an amateur...

Usget said:
Come on guys. We're better than this. Love and harmony among spooners, yes?

Let's all come together to laugh at the guy who reckons he's bought a genuine Fuhrer bunker spoon.
That's a request we can all get behind. Fuhrer's bunker spoon? Ha.

SCEtoAUX

4,119 posts

81 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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Usget said:
NDA said:
AstonZagato said:
NDA said:
My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.
We both know that your spoon is not the actual 1762 George II Gold Cup winner. That was lost in a catastrophic stirring accident at Goodwood in the early 19th century. The spoon you have was rebuilt in 1902 using only the left flange of the original and most of the spare 1756 spoon which the great competitive stirrer Lord Masterley used for his more regular tea tastings (but was never used in competiions). It is a very fine spoon but "Gold Cup winner" is a bit of a stretch.
Setting aside your potentially libellous bile, my spoon ('The George II Campaign Spoon' to give it it's correct title) was not 'lost' at Goodwood - merely damaged.

You stick to your convertible modern stuff and leave the historic utensils to those that know teaspoons from tampons. Hahahahaha. How is your stainless steel coffee spoon collection? Hahahahahahahaahahahaa
Come on guys. We're better than this. Love and harmony among spooners, yes?

Let's all come together to laugh at the guy who reckons he's bought a genuine Fuhrer bunker spoon.
Laugh at your peril but the provenance of my '41 ReichLöffel is exemplary. I have the original bill of sale from the Buzlwerk of Vienna, signed by Pissendort himself, along with the militärische Bestellung document issued by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

Added to that I have a note from the führer's "Besteck Meister" confirming safe arrival of the spoon at his Cologne residence in February 1942. In addition to the safe arrival, the note also mentions the führer being delighted at the teaspoon's "sanftes Rühren und Gleichgewicht" (Smooth stirring action and balance).

Photographs with custard? Not a chance, the fear of forgery of a teaspoon valued at well over €2.6m does't bear thinking about.

Blib

44,030 posts

197 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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"Bunker spoon"? "Gold Cup Winner"?

Yeah right. And I'm the Queen of Sheba.

This thread's turned into a fantasist's playground.

You make me sick.

No offence intended

alorotom

11,939 posts

187 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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SCEtoAUX said:
Usget said:
NDA said:
AstonZagato said:
NDA said:
My mid 18th Century example (and previous George II Gold Cup winner) may now be outlawed in favour of the more solid backed modern items.
We both know that your spoon is not the actual 1762 George II Gold Cup winner. That was lost in a catastrophic stirring accident at Goodwood in the early 19th century. The spoon you have was rebuilt in 1902 using only the left flange of the original and most of the spare 1756 spoon which the great competitive stirrer Lord Masterley used for his more regular tea tastings (but was never used in competiions). It is a very fine spoon but "Gold Cup winner" is a bit of a stretch.
Setting aside your potentially libellous bile, my spoon ('The George II Campaign Spoon' to give it it's correct title) was not 'lost' at Goodwood - merely damaged.

You stick to your convertible modern stuff and leave the historic utensils to those that know teaspoons from tampons. Hahahahaha. How is your stainless steel coffee spoon collection? Hahahahahahahaahahahaa
Come on guys. We're better than this. Love and harmony among spooners, yes?

Let's all come together to laugh at the guy who reckons he's bought a genuine Fuhrer bunker spoon.
Laugh at your peril but the provenance of my '41 ReichLöffel is exemplary. I have the original bill of sale from the Buzlwerk of Vienna, signed by Pissendort himself, along with the militärische Bestellung document issued by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

Added to that I have a note from the führer's "Besteck Meister" confirming safe arrival of the spoon at his Cologne residence in February 1942. In addition to the safe arrival, the note also mentions the führer being delighted at the teaspoon's "sanftes Rühren und Gleichgewicht" (Smooth stirring action and balance).

Photographs with custard? Not a chance, the fear of forgery of a teaspoon valued at well over €2.6m does't bear thinking about.
Exactly! ‘‘Twas me who has had the fortune to obtain said gold bunker spoon and it’s still with security being valued, rated and documented. The only custard getting near this will be behind armoured temperature controlled plexi glass. The jealousy in the past page or so has been overwhelming and a tinge saddening, I thought this place of spoonage solitude was a safe zone.

NDA

21,572 posts

225 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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AstonZagato said:
Given that the mangled remnants of the original The George II Campaign Spoon would have fitted on the back of a postage stamp "merely damaged" is a masterfull understatement. Furthermore, Archie (the current Lord Masterley) also claims to have the GiiCS (rebuilt using part of the remaining shaft).
The bowl and thruster assembly are where legal title lies - which frankly you should know at your age. Rebuilding from "part of the remaining shaft" is like saying you have a Ferrari when you merely have a wing mirror.

Risible nonsense.

Butter Face

30,298 posts

160 months

Monday 23rd April 2018
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Gents, please.

I have he original documentation here somewhere on microfiche along with the newspaper reports from the time. I’ll dig them out once I’m back in the country, currently in Vienna on the track of a 1874 Coup De Grace in 5/8ths Platinum finish....

Mark-C

5,074 posts

205 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Butter Face said:
Gents, please.

I have he original documentation here somewhere on microfiche along with the newspaper reports from the time. I’ll dig them out once I’m back in the country, currently in Vienna on the track of a 1874 Coup De Grace in 5/8ths Platinum finish....
Cheeky I know but if you see one in 7/16ths Matte d’Or can you PM me?

Asking for a friend

Butter Face

30,298 posts

160 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Mark-C said:
Butter Face said:
Gents, please.

I have he original documentation here somewhere on microfiche along with the newspaper reports from the time. I’ll dig them out once I’m back in the country, currently in Vienna on the track of a 1874 Coup De Grace in 5/8ths Platinum finish....
Cheeky I know but if you see one in 7/16ths Matte d’Or can you PM me?

Asking for a friend
I think I possibly have one in storage. I’ll have a look at some point!

KP328

1,812 posts

195 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Butter Face said:
Mark-C said:
Butter Face said:
Gents, please.

I have he original documentation here somewhere on microfiche along with the newspaper reports from the time. I’ll dig them out once I’m back in the country, currently in Vienna on the track of a 1874 Coup De Grace in 5/8ths Platinum finish....
Cheeky I know but if you see one in 7/16ths Matte d’Or can you PM me?

Asking for a friend
I think I possibly have one in storage. I’ll have a look at some point!
Forget all this 5/8ths and 7/16ths nonsense, you cant beat a basic 18/8ths stainless steel Teaspoon ( call me a common peasant but i love them )

Usget

5,426 posts

211 months

Tuesday 24th April 2018
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KP328 said:
Forget all this 5/8ths and 7/16ths nonsense, you cant beat a basic 18/8ths stainless steel Teaspoon ( call me a common peasant but i love them )
Alright, you common peasant.

Well, you did ask.

55palfers

5,908 posts

164 months

Friday 27th April 2018
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The British Empire was built on fractions. Get a grip.