Fiddle Pattern Silver Runcible Spoon, 1881

An excellent example of a Victorian fiddle pattern silver runcible spoon made famous by Edward Lear in "The Owl & The Pussy Cat".

This silver runcible spoon (aka pickle or chutney spoon or spork) was made by the important specialist spoonmaker George Adams of Chawner & Company. It remains in excellent, polished condition with the bonus of no personalised engravings and clear London hallmarks to the reverse side.

The runcible spoon appears in two works by Edward Lear: The Owl & The Pussy Cat ("They dined on mince and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon") and Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures ("The Dolomphious Duck, who caught Spotted Frogs for her dinner with a Runcible Spoon")