Utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle

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Old eating implements: spoons, forks, and a knife. Engraving after Schnebbelie.

The spoon: with upwards of one hundred illustrations, primitive, Egyptian, Roman, mediaeval, and modern / By Habbakuk O. Westman. Being a part of the Trans. Society of Literary and Scientific Chiffoniers, illustrating the primitive arts in domestic life.

Symons collection at the Royal College of Physicians.

Dose : one spoonful / by George Griffenhagen.

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The spoon: with upwards of one hundred illustrations, primitive, Egyptian, Roman, mediaeval, and modern / By Habbakuk O. Westman. Being a part of the Trans. Society of Literary and Scientific Chiffoniers, illustrating the primitive arts in domestic life.

Old eating implements: spoons, forks, and a knife. Engraving after Schnebbelie.

Symons collection at the Royal College of Physicians.

Dose : one spoonful / by George Griffenhagen.