Old base metal spoons
Old Base Metal Spoons is a 1908 London study by F. G. Hilton Price, published by B. T. Batsford, aimed at collectors and antiquarians who identify old spoons. The photographs show individual spoons shot against plain grounds, with several plates of spoons arranged in rows, their bowls and handle terminals clearly lit. A designer could take from them the range of spoon silhouettes, from the knopped stem and bowl profile to the pierced or fig-shaped terminals, as a catalogue of historic form.
