Dinner is served: Vintage flatware on canvas

Vintage serving pieces and lids

It is no secret I like vintage items: my house runneth over. When I started collecting these old silver plate utensils, I had ideas to turn them into coat hooks or picture holders. Time passes…and passes. Then one day while looking for a new bathroom vanity, I noticed a piece of art hanging over the one in the illustration and an idea was born. Now I am not really sure why anyone would make a piece of art with gold spray painted knives, forks, and spoons and put it in the bathroom, but I still liked the idea. This piece is for over my kitchen sink. The two small lids are from an antique store back in my home town. They were in a lot of mismatched lids the dealer had bought and I dug through the box and scored some lovely finds–about a dozen of them. You will see why I added them as soon as the piece fully dries and I hang it!

Left to right:

• Meat fork: Exquisite design, 1940, by Edward J. Conroy for Wm Rogers & Son
• Gravy or soup ladle: Meadowbrook design, ca. 1936, Wm. A. Rogers
• Jam, jelly, or marmalade spoon: Garland design; 1914, by Frederick E. Pretat for Star Rogers & Bro.
• Sugar shell: Shell design, ca.1899-1905, Wm. H. Rogers of Plainfield
• Ice cream spoon: Unmarked
• Cheese spreading knife: not vintage, ca. 2002
• Pickle or olive fork: Shell design, ca. 1899-1905, Wm. H. Rogers of Plainfield
• Butter knife: Baronet aka Algonquin design, 1923, by Oneida Community
• Ice cream spoon: Unmarked

Meanwhile, the sun is shining and I need to get to work! Thanks for stopping by!