Short lunch hunt

[Nathan W]

Back to the productive site for a bit on my lunch break. Got this plated spoon, not a bit of silver left on it. And this fixed knife.

 

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[pepperj]

Back to the productive site for a bit on my lunch break. Got this plated spoon, not a bit of silver left on it. And this fixed knife.

What is the manufacturer name on the spoon handle?

 

[Nathan W]

What is the manufacturer name on the spoon handle?

Regal

 

[Red-Coat]

The spoon is the Regal Pure Silver Plate pattern known as “Rex”. Designed by Roy L. Danks and Max L. Baker in 1904.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very nice !

 

[Nathan W]

I was wondering if that knife was a boot knife or a kitchen knife

 

[Trezurehunter]

Find the fork, and you have enough to eat a meal ! Neat finds.

 

[Nathan W]

Find the fork, and you have enough to eat a meal ! Neat finds.

I've gotten a lot of cutlery from there

 

[pepperj]

I've gotten a lot of cutlery from there

I often wonder why some sites have so many. Picnics, outside feeding, tossed

 

[Red-Coat]

I often wonder why some sites have so many. Picnics, outside feeding, tossed

Just as a little aside, there is a Jewish custom of burying silverware cutlery that has become ‘treif’ by having come into contact with non-kosher food. It’s either buried in the ground for a number of days, or sometimes ‘planted’ in a flowerpot filled with earth. Although it is practiced by a number of Jews and probably derives from the ‘ne'itzah’ ritual of stabbing a knife into soil ten times to ‘re-kosher’ it, the tradition has no real place in ‘kashrut’ (Jewish religious laws). It seems to be more a folk custom that spread from Eastern Europe into Jewish communities elsewhere and became adopted for erroneous reasons.

I have a friend who works as a nurse in a Jewish care home in New Jersey and she told me that one of the residents asked her to bury some cutlery outside in the garden, explaining that it had been used for non-kosher food. For some reason, he asked for this to be done at night.

I don’t think this is the answer to your question, but I wonder how much cutlery has been buried over the years for this reason, but not recovered?