CAKE Slice? Looks too big

[MichaK]

Got an other interessting Item:
A big Cake Slice.
Marks: CFT and an G.
Backside: C inside an Emblem
Does anybody knows how old it is?
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Thanks a lot!

[blakstone]

The pyr (a heraldic pine cone) is the mark of the German city of Augsburg; the date letter “G” (not "C") corresponds to 1821. The maker “CFT” is Georg Christian Friedrich Temmler (1768-1829); Master 1796.

As an interesting side note, the tear-shaped applied medallion in the center was manufactured by Peter Bruckmann & Co. of Heilbronn. It was illustrated in their silverware supply catalogue of 1815 and turns up on all sorts of German neoclassical silver 1815-1825, from spoon handles to teapots.

[MichaK]

Wow, 1821 that´s old. Thank you for the fast information!

[SilverSurfer]

Just for info sake, the applied medallion is a representation of the Roman goddess Hilaritas, holding a long palm leaf and a cornucopia, used on coins in approx. the 100-300 AD era. She was the spirit of rejoicing and associated as well with fecundity, long life and bounty (such as the cornucopia became a better know representation in the West much later). Her name is the root of the English word hilarious, though its current usage is not in well line with the original association. I have a large spoon or ladle (forget which, it's stuffed away somewhere), also of German manufacture, with the same applied medallion. Thank you, blakstone, for the information on who made this medallion, I wasn't aware of this.

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