1938 Birmingham Sterling Silver Teaspoons and Nips Set
A boxed set of sterling silver teaspoons and nips, 1938 Birmingham, with maker's marks for Arthur Price & Co, the elegant reed edged spoons with a handkerchief fold triangular finial, the nips similarly decorated, housed in the original box and accompanied by a card indicating the set was gifted by Mrs Percy Hamilton Hughes family in 1939, wife of the then British Minister for transport. Silver weight 82gr. Length 4.53 in. (spoons)
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Finial - An architectural decoration, found on the upper parts of of an object. On furniture they are usually found on pediments, canopies and shelf supports. On smaller ceramic or silver items, such as spoons, they may decorate the top of the item itself, or the lid or cover where they provide a useful handle for removal.
Finials have a variety of shapes and forms. They may be urn-shaped, baluster shaped round or spiral, but usually taper into an upper point. Many real life shapes may also be used as finials, such as pineapples, berries, pinecones, buds, lotus and acorns. Sometimes animals such as a lion are depicted, or fish and dolphins.
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