New Teaspoon Advice Please

[bwk]

Just wondering if any beards may be able to provide any insight into a prospective Steiff purchase...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stieff-Teaspoon-Set-of-...

I understand this is a postwar design and so will never be as ultimately collectible as for example the Maryland Rose, but how would you rate overall reliability and any common faults to look out for? I know that the Steiff was engaged in the transition to pewterware around this time, how did the silverware hold up? Don't want to find out I've invested in the teamaking equivalent of a noughties Mercedes after the fact!

[anonymous-user]

bwk said:

Just wondering if any beards may be able to provide any insight into a prospective Steiff purchase...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stieff-Teaspoon-Set-of-...

I understand this is a postwar design and so will never be as ultimately collectible as for example the Maryland Rose, but how would you rate overall reliability and any common faults to look out for? I know that the Steiff was engaged in the transition to pewterware around this time, how did the silverware hold up? Don't want to find out I've invested in the teamaking equivalent of a noughties Mercedes after the fact!

Don't go near it! Post Steiff teddybears and pre Steiff pewterware was the deadly three week period where they were turning out spoons using leftover teddybear technology and tooling. There was limited success with Paddington being the main customer but the reviews were atrocious particularly when the spoons are wetted.

[55palfers]

°This set has been professionally cleaned & polished."

Says it all. Patina ruined.

They may well have a little World Cup kudos but personally, not for me.

[Blib]

wolfracesonic said:

55palfers said:

It's Monday.

Any news from Mr Blib? At all.

Nothing as yet; you could cut the tension with a spoon here at Wolfrace towers (not a Krupp spoon obviously).I was on the edge of my seat, I’ve now transferred to tenterhooks.

What part of....

"You'll have to wait until Monday, Wednesday, whatever."

do you two find difficult to understand?

Jeez, it's like dealing with a shoal of guppies on here sometimes.

[eldar]

V6 Pushfit said:

Don't go near it! Post Steiff teddybears and pre Steiff pewterware was the deadly three week period where they were turning out spoons using leftover teddybear technology and tooling. There was limited success with Paddington being the main customer but the reviews were atrocious particularly when the spoons are wetted.

Their highlight. They’d look good on a TR7.

[wolfracesonic]

Blib said:

wolfracesonic said:

55palfers said:

It's Monday.

Any news from Mr Blib? At all.

Nothing as yet; you could cut the tension with a spoon here at Wolfrace towers (not a Krupp spoon obviously).I was on the edge of my seat, I’ve now transferred to tenterhooks.

What part of....

"You'll have to wait until Monday, Wednesday, whatever."

do you two find difficult to understand?



Jeez, it's like dealing with a shoal of guppies on here sometimes.

From the edge of my seat, to tenterhooks, to now being lambasted, I fear disillusionment is next on the cards. Can’t you give us a teaser Blib, a ray of hope, an inkling?

[NDA]

bwk said:

Just wondering if any beards may be able to provide any insight into a prospective Steiff purchase...

When they merged with Graff to form Steiff é Graff they produced some excellent spoons. It was quite a profitable racket for them.

[21st Century Man]

My expectations are low anyway, Monday or Wednesday, I'm finding it hard to be excited. I bet it's yet another 242b relaunch.

[55palfers]

I've gone off the boil now.

[Blib]

Oh, ye of little intelligence faith.

Be patient. Rome wasn't stirred in a day..

[wolfracesonic]

Quo usque tandem abutere, Blib, patientia nostra?

[Blib]

wolfracesonic said:

Quo usque tandem abutere, Blib, patientia nostra?

Nothing at all wrong with my nostrils, thank you very much.

[wolfracesonic]

Blib said:

BIG announcement on Monday!!!!!!





Or Tuesday, possibly Wednesday. Get off my back, goddammit!!!!

Well Wednesday is here and nothing, I think we’ve been sold a pup lads. I think the whole sorry charade has been little more than a crude attempt at market manipulation; prior to Blib’s announcement, Krupp shares were trading at 7 pence on the Albanian stock exchange with the incentive(?) of a free 242(b) if you bought more than 50. Post announcement they had rocketed up to 8 pence with incentive withdrawn. This sort of practice is straight out the Elon Musk playbook, we’ll see where things stand at close of trade.

[21st Century Man]

Yawn.

[55palfers]

I don't think Mr Blib exists.

[21st Century Man]

Oh, I don't know about that? I mean, you couldn't possibly make it up!

[SCEtoAUX]

Well then...

[wolfracesonic]

55palfers said:

I don't think Mr Blib exists.

Do you think he might actually be a Keyser Soze type character, created to keep us all in line? If we don’t behave we’ll only get Krupp spoons to play with?

[Turn7]

Blib said:

wolfracesonic said:

Quo usque tandem abutere, Blib, patientia nostra?

Nothing at all wrong with my nostrils, thank you very much.

Well, nothing a small pair of scissors wouldnt sort out anyway......

[Blib]