What-is-it question LXI.

Post by **2209patrick** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:00 pm

Here's a scan of a ca.1890 Meriden Britannia Company catalog page.
I'd estimate the stand at about 20 inches (50.80 cm) high.
What does the catalog call this piece?

Pat.
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Hose_dk · Post by **Hose_dk** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:53 pm

12 spoons and 12 cups.
The stand?

Well what they call is is close to impossible.
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Post by **Granmaa** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:00 pm

Ice cream cup stand?
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Post by **2209patrick** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:45 pm

Well done Miles.
The catalog calls it an "ice cream stand".

Pat.
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Post by **dognose** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:10 pm

Hi Pat,
The one thing that surprises me is that the cups, judging by the height of the stand, appear to be a regular size. In Victorian England ice cream was a luxury item, sold in small glasses similar to a drinking glass but with the bowl about 90% solid glass leaving about a 1/4" at the top for a golf ball size blob of ice cream to be planted on the top, these were known as "Penny licks" and were very much a high days and hollidays treat.
I guess refrigeration came to the States earlier than England.
Regards Trev.
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Post by **Granmaa** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:09 pm

A penny lick. 9cm high

Miles

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