✅ SOLVED Big Iron Spoon with Twisted Handle

[Bramblefind]

I found this beauty at an old site. Has anyone ever seen a handle like this before? I'm thinking it may have been on site designed and created since it looks so crude.

Thank you!

 

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[duggap]

I would think that it had a wooden handle the rotted away.

 

[CC Hunter]

The spoon is a stamped sheet iron utensil, that originally would have had a flat one-piece handle stamped of the same sheet iron material. Someone apparently fashioned a replacement handle using a piece of wire, that likely was run through a punched hole in the spoon bowl, and then twisted around to form a handle. Simple ingenuity for prolonging the useful function of a broken item. These types of "field repairs" are often seen when folks are in areas far removed from any well-stocked mercantiles offering easy replacement of goods.


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[kuger]

The spoon is a stamped sheet iron utensil, that originally would have had a flat one-piece handle stamped of the same sheet iron material. Someone apparently fashioned a replacement handle using a piece of wire, that likely was run through a punched hole in the spoon bowl, and then twisted around to form a handle. Simple ingenuity for prolonging the useful function of a broken item. These types of "field repairs" are often seen when folks are in areas far removed from any well-stocked mercantiles offering easy replacement of goods.


CC Hunter

odd we havent encountered that particular "repair",.......improvision at its finest!

 

[CC Hunter]

odd we havent encountered that particular "repair",.......improvision at its finest!

Well, I surely cannot say with certainty that type of repair has never been seen nor dug by myself, my father, or various friends and relic hunting associates.

The sheer volume of tin and iron we have dug up, amounts to literally tons, the majority of which never gets much more than a second look, and rarely packed home. As you know, only in more recent years have we seen a growing interest in the rusty iron and steel relics.


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[Bramblefind]

Thanks very much!

This came from a site where I have done a lot of research on the people who once lived there. Just one family line for the whole period of occupancy of about 120 years. So even though this spoon is not much to look at it is still pretty neat that I can pinpoint who likely constructed it.

 

[steelheadwill]

I enjoy reading about finds that tell a story such as this one Bramble.
Our forebears were skilled at repurposing and just plain 'Making it work'.
I'd like to show another example.
Spoon starts to crack,was drilled to eliminate the fault line, and soldered.
Crack starts again in a different direction, with same repair.
It appears the bowl was sheared off the handle (looks like it took two attempts),
maybe the handle was repurposed, the bowl ended up in
an ashy dump site, surprisingly it wasn't saved for recasting or sold as scrap,
I'm thinking there's at least Farthing in that alloy.
Thanks for sharing