Item no. 18
Pap Spoon -
ca. 1800
Acquisition history: Gift of Miss Alice Wright, 1966
Fabric: Pewter
Marks:
Top surface: Gibson Inventor
Inside bowl on bottom: 66 or (?) 99
Measurements:
• Length overall: 5 1/2"
• Width at widest point of bowl: 2 1/1o"
• Length of handle: 2 7/10"
• Length of lid of aperture: 9/10"
• Width of aperture: 1/2"
Notes: The bowl was filled with thin pap (or, on occasion, with castor oil) by lifting the trap door in the lid. The top of the bowl was placed in the lid. The tip of the bowl was placed in the child's mouth and the flow could be controlled by placing a finger over the open end of the hollow handle. If the contents were not taken as rapidly as desired, one could blow down the handle!
