✅ SOLVED Sterling Silver Baby Spoon found with bent handle. Two part Question???

[bonepicker]

Can anyone date this spoon by design or hallmark?
Why was the handle bent like this?
I know at one time it was common practice to give a silver spoon as a gift when someone had a baby.
I believe I have seen several old silver baby spoons posted on MD forums with a bent handle similar to mine.
Im guessing this was done purposely for hanging, keep from poking an eye, easier handling, or to set down and keep from spilling.
Any ideas
ill include some other finds from this site. I also saw lots of pieces of glass at this site. Black glass, yellow-ware, applied lip tops, etc.

 

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[nkellam22]

Could have just been hit by a plough or some sort of accidental damage.
As for the date range the term sterling was used during the late 1800s up to around the 1940s when it was replaced with 925.

 

[HuntinDog]

The finds of your site are to old, but that is the way Heroin and Crack smokers bend their spoons for cooking their drugs.
I've found a few burnt ones, but never a silver one.
They would have sold it for drug money.

Baby spoons were bent like that for better grip while feeding and later for baby to hold better when they started to feed themselves

 

[bonepicker]

The finds of your site are to old, but that is the way Heroin and Crack smokers bend their spoons for cooking their drugs.
I've found a few burnt ones, but never a silver one.
They would have sold it for drug money.

Baby spoons were bent like that for better grip while feeding and later for baby to hold better when they started to feed themselves

I’m leaning towards this theory as well I was hoping the shape of the spoon or this possible hallmark might help date it.

 

[bonepicker]

This is the closest possible match I have come up with.Saart Brothers. Attleboro, Massachusetts circa 1906-present.Not 100% certain about this one.

 

[bowwinkles]

That bent design is so that the adult can use it to feed the infant with much more control.

https://www.google.com/search?q=vin...KHXP8AN8Q9QEwAXoECAkQIQ#imgrc=bsR8fJWzG6CdqM:

 

[cw0909]

maybe the Saart Brothers 1906 - present
https://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_S.html

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[Megalodon]

Some of us have given sterling silver spoons as gifts for babies to this day. I grew up in an old MA mill city called "the silver city" within walking distance of Reed & Barton and bought a dozen once at their factory store when silver was cheap to give as gifts to friends having children. I gave my last one to my first grandson last year.

In addition to tradition, I believe that silver is naturally anti-microbial, or at least more anti-microbial than the cheap plastic spoons.

Agree with Saart in Attleboro ID.