Greenstone-handled Silver Utensils with Engravings
Three New Zealand silver utensils with greenstone handles, a butter knife, a pickle fork and a jam spoon, each with engraved decoration, two with maker's mark A.M.
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- Marrow Spoon - A spoon with a long handle and a narrow scoop shaped bowl, used to scoop and eat marrow from the hollow centre of roasted bones. Some marrow scoops are double ended with a different shaped bowl at each end.
- Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.
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