Spoon style names and dates?

[Jag]

I have a collection of fifty or so coin silver spoons, accumulated over the last few decades. This site has been very helpful in identifying some of the makers, but some are not listed. And some of the listed ones made flatware over many decades, so even knowing the maker doesn't pin down the date that precisely.

I have run across names for various spoon styles, but haven't found a page that identifies the different styles (coffin, tombstone, etc.) with the dates they were popular. I know that styles aren't necessarily definitive - e.g. Revere bowls are still being made hundreds of years later. But it gives you a "can't be earlier than" date, and I assume styles are useful in silver as they are in furniture, as fashion changes.

Can anyone point me to a page or website that gives this information?

Thank you in advance, and thanks for the great info I've already found here.

[SilverSurfer]

Hi, and welcome to the forum. One of the better explanations of spoon shape with time is the article, "More Notes On Spoon Types", by Robert Alan Green in the April, 1970 edition (Vol. 3, No. 4) of Silver-Rama, pages 2-5. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this article is available on-line:

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL21344832 ... poon_types

Perhaps someone else might chime in with a source for this article or perhaps a newer and more accessible source.

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[doc]

There is also a good reference book. Spoons, by Gail Belden and Michael Snodin; it covers American, English and Continental. I have found it very helpful.