SC - Plastic Ware

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Great...thanks a bunch.  However, the ones Badger had had three-pronged forks, and
he said that that was what was depicted in his documentation????

Kiri

RuddR at aol.com wrote:

> Kiri writes,
>
> >  Oh goodie....another thread, sort of.  I ran into something Saturday at the
> >  event I cooked, that I thought you all might like ti "chew on".  One of our
> >  metal workers, and a very talented one who does serious research, I might
> > add,
> >  was selling a thing that I christened a "spork".  it is brass, has an early
> >  spoon shape on one end and 3-tined fork on the other.  When I asked, he
> said
> > he
> >  had documented it as 9th century Anglo-Saxon, and quoted me chapter and
> > verse.
> >  Unfortunately, as I didn't have anything to write on...and my mind was a
> > little
> >  toward the "pudding" stage at that point so I can't remember what he said,
> I
> >  don't remember where the "chapter and verse" came from.  Any thoughts???
>
> _European Spoons Before 1700_, by John Emery, John Donald Publishing, Ltd,
> 1976.
>
> P.63 (Northern Europe):
> "Of slightly later date are two unfinished combined spoons and forks from a
> hoard of coins and silver scrap dug up at Sevington in Wiltshire and dated
> about A. D. 850. . . .the earliest appearance of a definite two-pronged fork
> [in Northern Europe]. . . ."
>
> Rudd Rayfield
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