Metal Things: Gallery of Filigree Caddy Spoons

Jockey cap design silver filigree caddy spoon.

The 'peak' handle is of the same design as a spoon by Pemberton, below.

To find out more about Birmingham's filigree trade, click here.

Caddy spoons were part of tea drinking paraphernalia, and were used to scoop out loose tea from the tea caddy. The examples below were all made in silver filigree in Birmingham.

Gallery Below

Metal Things: The Silver Work of Samuel Pemberton (c. 1704-1836)

Samuel Pemberton silver toothpick case, 1793.

Held at Birmingham Assay Office.

There were at least three generations of Samuel Pemberton's working as jewellers, toymakers and silversmiths in Birmingham in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries, possibly fathers and sons, but if not, they were likely extended family.* The first lived from about 1704 to 1784, the second from 1738 to 1803, and the third from about 1771 to 1836. It is the two latter whose silver survives in museums and private collections (see more of their silver on Pinterest).