Gumbo Spoons

Demitasse Spoon

Ice Cream Forks

Soup Spoon

Silver Plated Flatware For 12

Sterling Silver Flatware Fish Fork

Sterling Silver Ice Tea Spoon

Materials

Sterling Silver

$14,900 / set

Imperial Queen by Whiting Sterling Silver Flatware 12 Set Service 94 Pcs Dinner

By Whiting Manufacturing Company

Located in Big Bend, WI

This set includes: 12 Banquet Size Knives, 10 5/8" 12 Dinner Size Forks, 7 5/8" 12 Regular / Salad Forks, 7" 12 Teaspoons, 5 7/8" 12 Place Soup Spoons, 7" 12 Flat Handle Butter Spre...

Category

20th Century Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

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Most Rare Hector Aguilar Sterling Flatware Set, 124 Pieces

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Most Rare Hector Aguilar Sterling Flatware Set, 124 Pieces

By Hector Aguilar

Located in New York, NY

The 124 piece set includes: 12 solid silver dinner knives 9 1/2 inches long. 12 solid silver butter knives 5 1/8 inches long. 12 dinner/luncheon forks 7 5/8 inches long. ...

Category

Vintage 1940s Mexican Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

Museum Quality Hector Aguilar Rope Motif Sterling Flatware Set

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Museum Quality Hector Aguilar Rope Motif Sterling Flatware Set

By Hector Aguilar

Located in New York, NY

Eight salad/dessert forks 6 3/8 inches long. Eight round bowl gumbo/dessert spoons 7 inches long. Eight teaspoons 6 inches long.

Category

Vintage 1960s Mexican Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

St. Dunstan Silver Flatware Service by Tiffany & Co.

Located in New Orleans, LA

The advent of serving meals in separate courses during this era meant that each guest was given utensils for every type of food served at the meal, giving way to more specialized and...

Category

20th Century American Tableware

Materials

Silver

Tiffany & Co. Chrysanthemum Flatware Service, 247 Pieces

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Tiffany & Co. Chrysanthemum Flatware Service, 247 Pieces

By Tiffany & Co.

Located in New Orleans, LA

This flatware service contains: 12 entrée forks 12 dinner forks 12 fish forks 12 salad forks 12 bouillon forks 12 oyster forks 12 entrée knives 12 salad knives 12 dessert kn...

Category

Antique 19th Century American Other Tableware

Materials

Sterling Silver

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Reed & Barton Francis I Silver Flatware Service

By Reed & Barton

Located in New Orleans, LA

Chest: 44” wide x 37 3/8” deep x 42 1/2” high This service comprises: 60 Teaspoons 60 After Dinner Coffee Spoons 48 Dinner Forks 48 Luncheon Forks 48 Oval Dessert S...

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$120,000

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Large English Porcelain Imari Pattern Dessert and Tea Service, Spode, circa 1815

Located in New York, NY

Iron-red uppercase Spode mark and pattern 2213. Richly painted in the Imari palette and enriched in pale-blue, green and gold with flowering shrubs and a tree, the border with altern...

Category

Antique 1810s English Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Chrysanthemum by Durgin Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 300 Pieces Massive

$69,500 / set

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Chrysanthemum by Durgin Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 300 Pieces Massive

By Durgin-Gorham 1

Located in Big Bend, WI

One of Durgin's most popular and beautiful patterns is "Chrysanthemum". The design is of leaves and chrysanthemum buds and blooms on the front. The back displays two chrysanthemums i...

Category

Antique 1890s American Sterling Silver

Materials

Sterling Silver

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Gumbo Spoons For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of gumbo spoons available on 1stDibs. The range of distinct gumbo spoons — often made from metal, silver and sterling silver — can elevate any home. Gumbo spoons have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century.

How Much are Gumbo Spoons?

Prices for gumbo spoons can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, gumbo spoons begin at $79 and can go as high as $1,559, while the average can fetch as much as $189.

Finding the Right Tableware for You

While it isn’t always top of mind for some, antique and vintage tableware can enhance even the most informal meal. It has been an intimate part of how we’ve interacted with our food for millennia.

Tableware has played a basic but important role in everyday life. Ancient Egyptians used spoons (which are classified as flatware) made of ivory and wood, while Greeks and Romans, who gathered for banquets involving big meals and entertainment, ate with forks and knives. At the beginning of the 17th century, however, forks were still uncommon in American homes. Over time, tableware has thankfully evolved and today includes increasingly valuable implements.

Tableware refers to the tools people use to set the table, including serving pieces, dinner plates and more. It encompasses everything from the intricate and elaborate to the austere and functional, yet are all what industrial product designer Jasper Morrison might call “Super Normal” — anonymous objects that are too useful to be considered banal.

There are four general categories of tableware — serveware, dinnerware, drinkware and, lastly, flatware, which is commonly referred to as silverware or cutlery. Serveware includes serving bowls, platters, gravy boats, casserole pans and ladles. Most tableware is practical, but it can also be decorative. And decorative objects count as tableware too. Even though they don’t fit squarely into one of the four categories, vases, statues and floral arrangements are traditional centerpieces.

Drinkware appropriately refers to the vessels we use for our beverages — mugs, cups and glasses. There is a good deal of variety that falls under this broad term. For example, your cheerful home bar or mid-century modern bar cart might be outfitted with a full range of vintage barware, which might include pilsner glasses and tumblers. Specialty cocktails are often served in these custom glasses, but they’re still a type of drinkware.

Every meal should be special — even if you’re using earthenware or stoneware for a casual lunch — but perhaps you’re hosting a dinner party to mark a specific event. The right high-quality tableware can bring a touch of luxury to your cuisine. Young couples, for example, traditionally add “fine china,” or porcelain, to their wedding registry as a commemoration of their union and likely wouldn’t turn down exquisite silver made by Tiffany & Co. or Georg Jensen.

It’s important to remember, however, that when you’re setting the dining room table to have fun with it. Just as you might mix and match your dining chairs, don’t be afraid to mix new and old or high and low with your tableware. On 1stDibs, find an extraordinary range of vintage and antique tableware to help elevate your meal as well as the mood and atmosphere of your entire dining room.

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