New Teaspoon Advice Please

[oilslick]

Some serious advice required for a somewhat upsetting situation.

I had a Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff MK IV in my spoon cabinet awaiting restoration (admittedly it had been sitting there for several years). I was planning on getting the flange gas flowed and ported, then giving it a serious polish when time and funds permitted.

Unfortunately Mrs OS mistook it for a neglected, worthless Krupp and decided to do some pot plant gardening with it. The spoon then sat outside for several months because she forgot to bring it back in once she'd finished

I've gently brushed off some of the rust and detritus but it doesn't look good. Is it salvageable? I'm reluctant to make an claim because, quite frankly, explaining what happened to the assessor will be embarrassing and humiliating.

[21st Century Man]

oilslick said:

Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff MK IV

[oilslick]

21st Century Man said:

oilslick said:

Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff MK IV

I know it's not a popular brand and their quality control issues during the 50's and 60's really put a lot of people off, but this spoon was a gift and I'd hate to see it melted down to make another soul-less Krupp.

[21st Century Man]

It's not that. You spelt it wrong.

[glenrobbo]

21st Century Man said:

It's not zat. You haf schpelt it wrong.

Not another Nazi on this thread!

It's getting worse than South America on here at the moment.

[oilslick]

Back to the original issue, is my poor Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff MK IV salvageable?

[Bodo]

21st Century Man said:

It's not that. You spelt it wrong.

Not true. Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr. was an American charlatan who successfully fooled the public with selling silver-plated copper coffeespoons as sterling teaspoons; in the same scale what Krupp does today.

Don't believe me? Google him.


We're looking at pure copper here!

@oilslick, you may polish it, and post it to the badly modified spoons thread.

[wolfracesonic]

21st Century Man said:

It's not that. You spelt it wrong.

I know, i wouldn’t have been that difficult to find out how to insert an umlaut would it? äëïöü see, it’s not hard is it As for the spoon? Some Brasso and 40 grit should see it right: Shiny shiny

[eldar]

oilslick said:

Some serious advice required for a somewhat upsetting situation.

I had a Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff MK IV in my spoon cabinet awaiting restoration (admittedly it had been sitting there for several years). I was planning on getting the flange gas flowed and ported, then giving it a serious polish when time and funds permitted.

Unfortunately Mrs OS mistook it for a neglected, worthless Krupp and decided to do some pot plant gardening with it. The spoon then sat outside for several months because she forgot to bring it back in once she'd finished

I've gently brushed off some of the rust and detritus but it doesn't look good. Is it salvageable? I'm reluctant to make an claim because, quite frankly, explaining what happened to the assessor will be embarrassing and humiliating.

Rust? Some sort of Krupp product, obviously.

[The Rotrex Kid]

wolfracesonic said:

21st Century Man said:

Thread has become something of a freak show lately. Can we get back to quality please? (Krupp excepted).

Yes, the heart does sink a little when you see the words ‘what it is is a totally new concept in stirring’.
Anyhow, returning to spoons of a certain standard, you may be interested in this, a 1978 Artaxerxes IV, Iranian in origin as you probably know. This one came from the Iranian embassy in the 1980s, I can’t go into too much detail about how I got it but you can probably work it out for yourself. As you can see it’s a big old beast, I’ve included a slug to give some idea of scale.

Doesn't look like a regulation slug to me. The feelers are all wrong.

[21st Century Man]

wolfracesonic said:

21st Century Man said:

It's not that. You spelt it wrong.

I know, i wouldn’t have been that difficult to find out how to insert an umlaut would it? äëïöü see, it’s not hard is it

It seems that we are the only ones who care? THAT is how far standards have dropped. I also made a mistake, I should have written "You spelled it incorrectly", what an ignoramus!

[wolfracesonic]

The Rotrex Kid said:

wolfracesonic said:

21st Century Man said:

Thread has become something of a freak show lately. Can we get back to quality please? (Krupp excepted).

Yes, the heart does sink a little when you see the words ‘what it is is a totally new concept in stirring’.
Anyhow, returning to spoons of a certain standard, you may be interested in this, a 1978 Artaxerxes IV, Iranian in origin as you probably know. This one came from the Iranian embassy in the 1980s, I can’t go into too much detail about how I got it but you can probably work it out for yourself. As you can see it’s a big old beast, I’ve included a slug to give some idea of scale.

Doesn't look like a regulation slug to me. The feelers are all wrong.

I think you’ll find it is a regulation spoon measuring slug, indeed I only recently received it back from the ISF calibration laboratories in Geneva, complete with certificate stating an accuracy of +/- 5 microns.

[The Rotrex Kid]

wolfracesonic said:

The Rotrex Kid said:

wolfracesonic said:

21st Century Man said:

Thread has become something of a freak show lately. Can we get back to quality please? (Krupp excepted).

Yes, the heart does sink a little when you see the words ‘what it is is a totally new concept in stirring’.
Anyhow, returning to spoons of a certain standard, you may be interested in this, a 1978 Artaxerxes IV, Iranian in origin as you probably know. This one came from the Iranian embassy in the 1980s, I can’t go into too much detail about how I got it but you can probably work it out for yourself. As you can see it’s a big old beast, I’ve included a slug to give some idea of scale.

Doesn't look like a regulation slug to me. The feelers are all wrong.

I think you’ll find it is a regulation spoon measuring slug, indeed I only recently received it back from the ISF calibration laboratories in Geneva, complete with certificate stating an accuracy of +/- 5 microns.

I see. I trust ISF have been keeping standards up since the departure of Slimák Sliznyak (head of Slug testing from 98-2017) to travel round Indonesia educating the Forkists in the art of slug-scaling.

Carry on.

[Herr Krupp]

glenrobbo said:

Not another Nazi on this thread!

It's getting worse than South America on here at the moment.

Wie kannst du es wagen! Ich bin noch nie ein Nazi gewesen. Weder war Vater noch meine Onkel.

Wenn Sie jemals wieder so etwas vorschlagen, werde ich Sie unter die Ferse meines Jackboots schleifen.

[glenrobbo]

Herr Krupp said:

Wie kannst du es wagen! Ich bin noch nie ein Nazi gewesen. Weder war Vater noch meine Onkel.

Wenn Sie jemals wieder so etwas vorschlagen, werde ich Sie unter die Ferse meines Jackboots schleifen.

Eine Stadt, Herr Krupp, eine Stadt:

Bariloche

Hmmm?
Im Jahre 1952? Mit Seine "Onkel Martin"?

Ich habe die Fotografien, "Grosse Klapperschlange"

Es war nur ein Würmchen!

Edited by glenrobbo on Friday 23 October 14:35

[Herr Krupp]

Spekulation Ger Robbo, nur Spekulation.

Axmann war ein Fantasist, es war nur ein Schauprozess.

Außerdem wurde mir immer gesagt, dass niemand in unserer Familie Ski fahren könne

[Hugo a Gogo]

Was zum Teufel ist jetzt hier los?

Ich verstehe nür Bahnhof

[Bodo]

Herr Krupp said:

...
Außerdem wurde mir immer gesagt, dass niemand in unserer Familie Ski fahren könne

Sie sprechen, als würden Sie verwundert sein, Herr Krupp.

[21st Century Man]

[thebraketester]

Dibble said:

oilslick said:

Dibble said:

Peak PH: Rolex branded teaspoons...

The flange shape doesn't look right and while the box does at first glance look convincing, I believe there were originally three hinges, not two.

Did you buy these from Blib?

No, I’m holding out for my grail pieces...

Just spoken to my AD they’ve got a set of these with box and papers. Just wondering if I should pull the trigger.