Miniature Silverware
All my miniature silverware is hand crafted and made to exactly 1/12th of the scale of the original. My silverware will also work much as the original; lids are hinged or lift off, handles are carved out of ebony wood or bone, jugs and vessels are hollow. Browse the galleries to view the miniature silver doll house items available to order.
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Tea Service Silverware
Oval Georgian Teapot, c. 1745
The heat meant an insulated handle was needed, here made of ebony, and a wood lined stand to prevent damage to polished surfaces. The lid lifts off and the open spout has a fret of holes at the base to strain the tea leaves. A small person could make and pour a cup of tea without burning their fingers.
Size: 14mm high
Price: £400
Oval Georgian Tea Set, c. 1745
Sugar Basket (right): to hold lump sugar served with tongs. At first tea was drunk without milk but quite sweet. Swing handle.
Size: 13 mm long
Price: £112
Milk Jug (left): milk or cream began to be widely drunk with tea around the mid 17th century to counteract the alleged bad effects of tea on the nervous system.
Price: £92
Oval Georgian Tea Set, c. 1745
Tea Strainer (left): pierced handles and bowl, sits on a separate drip pan
Price: £40
Caddy Spoon (centre left): fiddle pattern
Price: £14
Caddy Spoon (centre right): kept in caddy and made in many shapes and styles, this one being in the form of a hand
Price: £14
Sugar Tongs (right): 9mm long
Price: £15
Oval Georgian Tea Set, c. 1745
Featuring a lift off lid and ebony knob. Often with a lock, or kept in a locked box as tea was expensive. The name derives from the Malayan measure of tea, “kati”, about 1 1/3 lbs.
Price: £125
Oval Georgian Tea Set, c. 1745
Trays usually have handles and no feet. The well measures 40mm x 26mm
Price: £140
Fluted Melon-shaped Tea Set, c.1840
As tea became cheaper, teapots became larger. This one has a lift off lid with a white bone knob, open spout and decorated foot ring.
Size: 10mm high
Price: £240
Fluted Melon-shaped Tea Set, c.1840
Sugar Bowl (left)
Price: £116
Milk Jug (right): 8mm high
Price: £106
Fluted Melon-shaped Tea Set, c.1840
Well Size: 28mm x 21 mm
Price: £106
Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
When the kitchen can be a long, cold walk away, a kettle and spirit lamp that are suitably refined for the sitting room giving a handy supply of hot water for the teapot would be very welcome for afternoons “at home”. The ebony handle swings clear of the lid for filling, the kettle lifts off the lamp stand giving access to the lamp which itself lifts out, the lid coming off for filling with spirit which is drawn up the wick and lit to provide the heat. The butler can carry the whole using the two jointed handles, the table surface protected by ebony feet beneath the scrolled legs.
Price: £840
The Tripod floor stand is extravagance, removing even the need for a suitable flat surface at hand height.
Price: £440
Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
14mm high. Pear-shaped with ebony handle, open spout. Early teapots were small, as tea was rare and expensive.
Price: £300
Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
20mm high. Ebony handle, open spout.
Price: £315
Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
Ebony handle, open spout. Chocolate pots can be interchangeable with coffee pots, but are distinguished by having a small opening in the top of the lid for a swizzle stick which sits in the pot and can stir up the chocolate sediment without losing heat. The handle was often on the side, at a right angle to the spout.
Price: £330
Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
Sugar Bowl (left): The lid on the sugar bowl can be upturned for use as a teaspoon tray, as cups did not have saucers.
Price: £93
Milk Jug (right): It was unusual to take tea with milk at this time and it is just as likely that these little jugs were used for spirits.
Price: £93
Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
13mm high. The cap lifts off to allow the tea to be poured and measured in capfuls, no need for a caddy spoon, and the top slides back for refilling.
Price: £120
Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
Well 32mm x 22mm. Salvers are earlier than trays and developed from having a central foot to having small feet at the rim, and are without handles.
Price: £115
Dinner Service Silverware
Butter Dish c/w blue glass liner, butter and knife
£180
Butter Knife is also available separately
£16
Polished inside, but the outside of naturalistic texture with shell feet c/w butter curls and knife. c1740.
£65
Butter Knife is also available separately
£16
Caster: For sugar or pepper. Hollow, the lid lifts off and is pierced, ready for use. c1730. 14mm high.
£82
Preserve or Marmalade Jar: Glass with a silver lid which has a slot holding the spoon
£65
Before the days of refrigeration a champagne cooler holding crushed ice would keep wine cool. Shown open, or on the right with a liner, c1800
Price £258
Price £345 c/w liner
Plain, Lion’s head loose ring handles.
Price: £150
An early cheese on toast maker. Late 18th C & early 19th C. Pieces of bread were soaked in wine and put in the individual pans with slices of cheese on top. The ebony handle removes to allow the hot water jacket to be filled through the socket, then the dish is held to the fire. A chain holds the lid half open reflecting heat down onto the cheese and shielding your hand.
Price: £360
Coaster, (centre) inside dia. 9.5mm. With turned wood base. Originally used to coast bottles or decanters around the table.
£70
Decanter or Wine Labels, In addition to Port and Claret shown here, I also make Whisky, Gin, Sherry, Rum and Brandy. Shown with a decanter and wine bottle.
£11
Coaster Trolley: A pair of articulated coasters on wheels, bringing a little novelty to after dinner drinking. C/w 2 cranberry decanters & labels.
£285
Coaster: Fluted decoration
£60
Bottle and label extra.
Standing dish for fruit, c/w grapes
£80
With condiment bottle
£50
With glass bottles for oil and vinegar
£145
With salt and pepper shakers
£70
Glass decanter with silver top
£47
Label
£11
Dinner Plate 20mm dia.
£48
Dessert Plate 13.5mm dia.
£38
Napkin Rings with napkins, the first shaped with beaded edges:
£8
And plain:
£5
With Stilton cheese, cheese knife and dish cover with fluted decoration.
£180
Boiled eggs for six! 18mm high with revolving tray holding six egg cups, eggs (new laid) and egg spoons c.1820
£235
Available separately:
Egg cup, c/w egg & spoon
£28
Egg cup, c/w egg
£15
28mm long. A piece produced in large numbers to hold the variety of entrees which were served at large dinners between the fish and the meat course.
£150
Beaded edge. Well 28mm x 21mm
£73
Mustard Pot & spoon. 8mm high. Round drum shape. The lid is hinged and has a slot holding the spoon, length 8mm
£120
Mustard Pot & spoon. 8mm high. Round drum shape. The lid is hinged and has a slot holding the spoon, length 8mm. Pierced body with blue glass liner.
£155
Nutcrackers, jointed, with some “nuts”
£36
Marrow scoop, to get the marrow from bones
£18
Mirror table centre stand for candles, epergnes or serving dishes, to ornament the dining table.
30mm inside diameter
£175
Mirror table centre stand for candles, epergnes or serving dishes, to ornament the dining table.
80x30mm inside
£300
Porringer / Baby Bowl with pierced handle
£52
Oval Salt cellar with a batwing shaped edge
£54
Round gadrooned Salt cellar, inside gilt.
£43
Both come with their spoon, length 6mm. Often in pairs, the name is a corruption of the French ‘saliere’, a salt dish
17mm long. To serve the variety of sauces that became fashionable in Georgian England.
Sauce boat and tray
£128
Sauce boat only
£105
13mm high. Sauce tureens appeared in the mid 18th C. This one has lion’s heads holding loose ring handles and comes with the ladle for which there is a slot in the lid. c1785.
£145
Sauce ladle is also available separately
£19
With lid, round, fluted decoration. 19mm outside diameter.
£155
10mm dia. Small fluted dish which could hold a variety of things, but this one comes with strawberries.
£24
16mm long. Wire rack with 7 dividers sitting on a crumb tray, c/w 2 slices of toast c.1800.
£128
Wine Cup
£56
Shown with Paten
£24
Funnel, open spout with angled tip to prevent aeration of the wine. Detachable pierced strainer with shell handle allowing it to be used separately. Stand to catch the drips. (Shown assembled and apart)
£100
Household Silverware
Candlestick (left): 15mm high. Baluster stem, early 18thC.
£58
Candlestick (centre): 25mm high. Candlesticks got larger as time went on. This is from 1780 and has a fluted stem.
£90
Candelabra (right): When the candlestick is fitted with 3 reeded branches it makes a candelabra to light the dining table or sideboard.
£440
All complete with David Edwards candles
4 ball feet, hinged lid with silk pin cushion & 2 hat pins.
£155
Cigarette box: 14mm long. Two compartments with hinged lids containing paper cigarettes. Early 20thC.
£145
Ashtray: 9mm square with paper cigarette.
£33
Cigarette Holder and Cigarette:
£10
Hinged lid, wood lined, with cigar.
£130
£67
Swing handle and cakes. 20mm dia.
£120
2 tier
£190
32mm long with decorated swing handle. Usually called cake baskets, they would just as likely hold bread, fruit, needlework or anything else the lady of the house might wish. c1750
£285
Pierced
£115
Rolling Blotter, 10mm long. The blotting paper is held around the wood by the silver top.
£57
Spirit Flask with pull off cap
£53
Seal, for impressing a scallop shell in sealing wax
£19
Paper Knife, Mid 18th C. These were made as meat skewers, but when superseded by stainless steel they were used to open letters.
£17
Waiter, the name given to a very small salver on which the butler might present calling cards. 13mm diameter
£72
Chamber Stick, to light the way, the large pan collecting dripping wax. A socket on the handle supports the loose extinguisher
£94
The cap is useful as a measure, whilst the lid has a fret of strainer holes to prevent fruit debris from being poured. Cocktails were named after Coctel, the beautiful daughter of a Mexican king.
£155
With two pierced handles and ball feet. There are two sizes:
Large, inside 44mm x 29mm
£165
Medium, inside 35mm x 23mm
£150
Length 22mm. A writing set comprising a stand with wells for a quill pen, hollow ink and pounce pots and a taper stick. Pounce was fine sand for drying ink and the taper, a thin candle, melted wax wafers to seal the letter. c1750
£155
Pierced gallery and 4 feet, complete with ink pot, pounce pot and taperstick with taper and quill pen.
£155
18mm wide. A later desk piece c/w with a blue inkbottle with lift off cover and quill pen.
£125
Ink Bottle. 4mm square with bevelled corners and silver cap, c/w quill pen.
£42
Also available for it to sit on is an oval tray with beaded edges.
£15
Paper knife, bone handle.
£30
Lift off top, c/w quill pen
£48
Pen
£16
Capstan Inkwell with hinged cap (comes with ink and quill pen)
£105
The cap is a push fit. 11mm long.
£45
Glove powderer: Hollow with lift off spout.
£54
Compact: Hinged lid shown open and closed, 5mm square. Mirror and pad inside.
£100
Tweezers: 7mm long.
£11
Pierced
£18
30mm dia. A pair sit on the washstand at the Hill House.
£250
Pull off cap, 6mm long.
£35
With lift off lid and a pad for the powder kept inside.
£70
with beaded edges. The photo will come out if you would like to replace it with your own. In three sizes:
Small, aperture approx 9 x 5mm
£73
Medium, aperture approx 13 x 9mm
£82
Large, aperture 19 x 15mm
£96
Other sizes can be made to order.
Vase, fluted top with red rose.
£52
Chippendale border and three feet. The well is about 20mm dia.
£100
Jointed, 8mm long.
£35
Also available: Thimble
£9
Silk cushion & 2 hat pins
£85
Ebony plinth with silver band.
£105
Wood stand with silver mounts and swing down top rail. Keeps your best liquor away from thirsty servants. Complete with 3 glass decanters and labels.
£385
Shown here with decanter and glasses by Gerd Felka for illustration only.
£75
Silver Cutlery
Fiddle pattern Pieces for Dinner:
Table Knife, bone handle. 19mm long
£23
Table Knife, silver handle.
£20
Table Fork
£14
Tablespoon, for soups and stews, used from the side
£14
Soup Spoon. Originated from America around the end of the 19th C and can be used instead of a tablespoon.
£14
Fish fork, fiddle pattern
£14
Fish knife, fiddle pattern
£14
Fish fork, bone handle
£29
Fish knife, bone handle
£24
For Dessert:
Dessert Knife, bone handle. 16.5mm long
£23
Dessert Knife, silver handle
£20
Dessert Fork
£14
Dessert Spoon
£14
Teaspoon, 11mm long
£14
Tea or Cake Knife,
Bone handle
£23
Silver handle
£20
Cake Fork, 2 tines and blade
£14
Table Spoon 17mm long
£14
Table Fork
£14
Soup Spoon
£14
Dessert Spoon
£14
Dessert Fork
£14
Teaspoon, 11mm long
£13
Other fiddle pattern pieces available in Old English to order
Table knife, pistol grip, 18mm long, early 18th C.
£20
Dessert knife is also available.
Table fork, pistol grip, 2 tines.
£21
Spoon
£14
Table fork and dessert fork, 3 tines,
£14
A serving spoon is also available.
Soup Ladle, this one is 27mm long, but I also make a smaller one of 22mm long, which some prefer alongside Stokesay Ware’s tureen (link opens in a new window)
£30
Slices for pastries or fish.
Shaped Blade
£31
Plain blade
£27
Asparagus Tongs
£40
Serving Fork
£22
Serving Spoon, 20mm long
£17
Stilton scoop
£22
Stilton or cheese scoop, bone handle
£35
Also available but not shown, a long handled stuffing spoon
£21
Fish Servers, slice & fork
£65
Bread knife, bone handle and blade with serrated edge
£28
Punch Ladle, ebony handle.
£57
Toasting fork, ebony handle, for cosy evenings by the fire.
£42
Often Christening pieces.
£32
Stainless steel with bone handles. Knife, fork and sharpener.
£175
Contemporary design in stainless steel
£22 per set of 3
Stainless steel blade. 9mm long.
£42
£16
Hinged lid. Containing six table knives in the lid and twenty pieces of flatware in the body – typically six table forks, six soup spoons, six desert spoons and two small serving spoons.
With silver handled knives
£520
With bone handled knives
£538
Mackintosh did not design knives for this set, so I adapted a design by a contemporary, Josef Hoffman.
Knives (pair)
£26
Ladle, length 31mm
£32
Flatware set of six, soup spoon, large fork, pudding spoon, small fork, fish knife and fork. These have the piercing and other details of the originals.
£125