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Spoon

Spoon
1920-1940 (made)
Artist/Maker
Mellin's Food Works (made for)
Place of origin
Leamington (photographed)
Stratford-upon-Avon (photographed)

Dispensing spoon, stamped and embossed aluminium, rectangular bowl with inward curving sides, straigth stem terminating with a plain moulding and a flat, square tip with embossed lettering: `MELLIN'S / FOOD / FOR / INFANTS / & / ADULTS'. The bowl embossed with the lettering, `UNTOUCHED / BY HAND'.

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Children & Childhood
Eating
Metalwork
Object type
Spoon
TitleSpoon (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Aluminium, stamped and embossed.
Aluminium
Stamping
Embossing
Brief description
Dispensing spoon, aluminium advertising Mellins Foods, England, 1920-1940.
Physical description
Dispensing spoon, stamped and embossed aluminium, rectangular bowl with inward curving sides, straigth stem terminating with a plain moulding and a flat, square tip with embossed lettering: `MELLIN'S / FOOD / FOR / INFANTS / & / ADULTS'. The bowl embossed with the lettering, `UNTOUCHED / BY HAND'.
Dimensions
  • Length: xcm
  • Width: xcm (maximum)
Marks and inscriptions
  • UNTOUCHED / BY HAND (Embossed within the bowl)
  • MELLIN'S / FOOD / FOR / INFANTS / & / ADULTS (Embossed on the tip of the handle.)
Production
Advertising Ephemera
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
CIRC.317-1976

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O295929/spoon-spoon-mellins-food-works/
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