Very odd spoon

[vmh]

Hi: I purchased this spoon years ago, and wonder what it is. It is about 6 inches long, and heavy for its size. A leaden feel. The handle is flat, 1/4 deep, about 3/4 inch wide, with three figures. The top one looks like a religious figure, olden day priest with hands held in a staff position. The middle one is a more childlike figure holding what looks like a sword. The bottom person next to the spoon part is holding the other two up on a platform. Each on top of the other.

The back is rougher, but with letters if you are looking at it one way, and a design sort of Asian-ish writing the other. The letters look like either a G or a Y then either a L or a dash, then an A. When turned upright, it looks like a fanciful 4 on a line over a pi sign. Maybe just scribbles from the roughness. The spoon part is hammered by relatively smooth and about and inch and three quarters wide.

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/dg4okwcodxc4w4r/3CXYfudwg_

Any info anyone has about this would be much appreciated. Thank you.

vmh

[oel]

Hi welcome to the forum.

Your fat porridge spoon could be made out of pewter or perhaps even lead. The front side looks chemically darkened or painted; to look like ‘old’ patina. I believe it to be a recent made copy and perhaps scratch-marked by the maker.


Oel.

[vmh]

Thank you so much for such specific information. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a porridge spoon. If it it has been darkened, I'm pretty sure it would be chemically, because the darker side is very secure. Not scratch-able at all.

And I'm glad to be here. A wealth of information.

vmh