TABLE CUTLERY
SOME CURIOUS FACTS. Three-pronged forks were first used at table in Italy in the 16th century. Queen Elizabeth carried her knife and fork at her girdle along with her ear-pick, tooth-pick, back-scratcher and -scraper! The first spoon was a shell. The term “spooning” is derived from the Welsh “love-spoons,” which were exchanged between lovers and often inscribed with words of symbolic meaning such as “We two are one.” The custom of giving cases of cutlery as wedding gifts dates from the 16th century, when knives were first used at table. Wedding knives of the 17 th century were often engraved with mottoes such as; My love is llxt, I will not rapge. I like my choice, I will not change. Or: Witt, wealth, and beauty all doe well, But constant love doth fair excell.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1939, Page 8
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136TABLE CUTLERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1939, Page 8
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