Lot Details
Lot 90
American Coin Silver Parcel Gilt Ice Cream Set
Retailed by William Brady, mid 19th century
Comprising large serving spoon and twelve individual spoons, each with fluted bowl. Length of server 10 1/2 inches, total approximately 9 ounces.
Ice cream eating really took off in America in the mid 19th century when the development of iceboxes coupled with industrial manufacture of ice cream in Baltimore in 1851 made it more available to the middle class. Services like this would have been in a pattern different from the main flatware service to denote that a special treat was about to arrive for dessert. Snobby diners could even tell "new" from "old" money if the hostess's flatware service all matched - something not possible with "old" money whose silver services had been added to over generations.
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Additional Notes & Condition Report
place spoons - 5 3/4 in. long
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