Fiddle Pattern Runcible Spoon, 1854
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Runcible Spoon - Fiddle pattern - London 1854 by Charles Boyton - 14cm long; 25g - TA/4327
A fine example of a mid-Victorian fiddle pattern runcible spoon (aka pickle or chutney spoon or spork). This spoon is in excellent original condition and benefits from having no engravings.
The runcible spoon appears in two works by Edward Lear: The Owl & The Pussy Cat ("They dined on mince and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon") and Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures ("The Dolomphious Duck, who caught Spotted Frogs for her dinner with a Runcible Spoon")
