HONEY SPOONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

HONEY SPOONS.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY STYLE. NEW SILVER FOR OLD. Not content with having the frocks worn by their grandmothers remade for themselves or converted into cushions or curtains, women are now bringing oldfashioned silver tea services to the handicraft worker to be remodelled, we are informed by a London daily. One hostess has had a heavy silver teaset of the late Victorian period converted into seventeenth century styles by a woman silversmith. It has been made into a Queen Anne teapot and biscuit box, a cream jug to match, and a Charles 11. porringer for sugar, as the Queen Anne sugar bowls are not so attractive. Honey spoons are being made by this artist, as honey is now so popular. They are extremely strong and will not bend, however thick the honey. One of her most successful novelties consists of diminutive silver boxes for aspirins, soda mints, or throat lozenges. They are in great demand by men as well as women. An interesting development on her part is the production of silverplate, so that women can obtain the cheaper metal and have the satisfaction of knowing that it is hand-made.