Miniature Silverware

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

Georgian Teaset
Georgian Oval teapot and cup
Georgian Teaset

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

Sugar Basket & Milk Jug
Miniature Silverware sugar basket and milk jug
Georgian Sugar Basket & Milk Jug

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

Tea Strainer, Spoons & Tongs
Miniature silver tea caddy
Georgian Tea Strainer, Spoons & Tongs

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

Tea Caddy
Miniature silver tea caddy
Georgian Tea Caddy

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

Tea Tray
miniature silver tea tray
Georgian Tea Tray

Oval Georgian Tea Set, c. 1745
Trays usually have handles and no feet. The well measures 40mm x 26mm
Price: £140

Fluted Teapot
Fluted Melon Teapot
Fluted Teapot

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

Sugar Bowl & Milk Jug
Miniature silver sugar bowl and milk jug
Fluted Sugar Bowl & Milk Jug

Fluted Melon-shaped Tea Set, c.1840
Sugar Bowl (left)
Price: £116
Milk Jug (right): 8mm high
Price: £106

Tray
Miniature silver tray
Fluted Tray

Fluted Melon-shaped Tea Set, c.1840
Well Size: 28mm x 21 mm
Price: £106

Queen Anne kettle and stand
Miniature silver teapot and stand
Queen Anne Kettle & Spirit Lamp

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 teapot
miniature queen Anne teapot
Queen Anne Teapot

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 coffee pot
Queen Anne coffee pot
Queen Anne Coffee Pot

Queen Anne Tea and Coffee Set, c.1720
20mm high. Ebony handle, open spout.
Price: £315

Queen Anne chocolate pot
Queen Anne chocolate pot
Queen Anne Chocolate Pot & Swizzle Stick

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 sugar bowl
Queen Anne sugar bowl
Queen Anne Sugar Bowl & Milk Jug

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 caddy
Queen Anne tea caddy
Queen Anne Tea Caddy

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 salver
Queen Anne salver
Queen Anne Salver

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

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Georgian Teaset
Sugar Basket & Milk Jug
Tea Strainer, Spoons & Tongs
Tea Caddy
Tea Tray
Fluted Teapot
Sugar Bowl & Milk Jug
Tray
Queen Anne kettle and stand
Queen Anne teapot
Queen Anne coffee pot
Queen Anne chocolate pot
Queen Anne sugar bowl
Queen Anne tea caddy
Queen Anne salver
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Dinner Service Silverware

Butter Dish
Butter Dish
Butter Dish & Butter Knife

Butter Dish c/w blue glass liner, butter and knife
£180
Butter Knife is also available separately
£16

Butter Shell
Butter Shell
Butter Shell

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 and Preserve Jar
Preserve Jar
Caster & Preserve Jar

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

Champagne Cooler
Champagne Cooler
Champagne Cooler

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

Champagne Cooler
Wine cooler
Champagne Cooler

Plain, Lion’s head loose ring handles.
Price: £150

Cheese Warming Dish
Cheese Warming Dish
Cheese Warming Dish

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
Coaster
Coaster and decanter/wine labels

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
Coaster Trolley
Coaster Trolley & Coaster

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.

Compote Dish
Compote Dish
Compote Dish

Standing dish for fruit, c/w grapes
£80

Bottle holder
miniature bottle holder
Bottle holder

With condiment bottle
£50

Cruet
oil and vinegar cruet
Cruet

With glass bottles for oil and vinegar
£145

Cruet with Salt & Pepper Shakers
Rolling blotter
Cruet Set

With salt and pepper shakers
£70

Decanter
Decanter
Decanter & Bottle Label

Glass decanter with silver top
£47
Label
£11

Dinner Plate
Dinner Plate
Dinner Plate

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

Cheese Dish
Cheese Dish
Cheese Dish

With Stilton cheese, cheese knife and dish cover with fluted decoration.
£180

Egg Cruet
Egg Cruet
Egg Cruet

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

Entree Dish
Entree Dish
Entree Dish

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

Meat Plate
Meat Plate
Meat Plate

Beaded edge. Well 28mm x 21mm
£73

Mustard Pot
Mustard Pot
Mustard Pot

Mustard Pot & spoon. 8mm high. Round drum shape. The lid is hinged and has a slot holding the spoon, length 8mm
£120

Mustard Pot
Mustard Pot
Mustard Pot

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
Nutcrackers
Nutcracker & Marrow Scoop

Nutcrackers, jointed, with some “nuts”
£36
Marrow scoop, to get the marrow from bones
£18

Round Plateau
Round Plateau
Round Plateau

Mirror table centre stand for candles, epergnes or serving dishes, to ornament the dining table.
30mm inside diameter
£175

Long Plateau
Long Plateau
Long Plateau

Mirror table centre stand for candles, epergnes or serving dishes, to ornament the dining table.
80x30mm inside
£300

Porringer
Porringer
Porringer

Porringer / Baby Bowl with pierced handle
£52

Salt Cellars
Salt Cellars
Salt Cellars

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

Sauce boat
Sauce Boat
Sauce Boat

17mm long. To serve the variety of sauces that became fashionable in Georgian England.
Sauce boat and tray
£128
Sauce boat only
£105

Sauce Tureen
Sauce tureen
Sauce Tureen

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

Serving Dish
Serving Dish
Serving Dish

With lid, round, fluted decoration. 19mm outside diameter.
£155

Strawberry Dish
Strawberry Dish
Strawberry Dish

10mm dia. Small fluted dish which could hold a variety of things, but this one comes with strawberries.
£24

Toast Rack
Toast Rack
Toast Rack

16mm long. Wire rack with 7 dividers sitting on a crumb tray, c/w 2 slices of toast c.1800.
£128

Wine Cup & Paten
Cup & Paten
Wine Cup & Paten

Wine Cup
£56
Shown with Paten
£24

Wine Funnel Set
Wine Funnels
Wine Funnel Set

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

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Butter Dish
Butter Shell
Caster and Preserve Jar
Champagne Cooler
Champagne Cooler
Cheese Warming Dish
Coaster
Coaster Trolley
Compote Dish
Bottle holder
Cruet
Cruet with Salt & Pepper Shakers
Decanter
Dinner Plate
Cheese Dish
Egg Cruet
Entree Dish
Meat Plate
Mustard Pot
Mustard Pot
Nutcrackers
Round Plateau
Long Plateau
Porringer
Salt Cellars
Sauce boat
Sauce Tureen
Serving Dish
Strawberry Dish
Toast Rack
Wine Cup & Paten
Wine Funnel Set
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Household Silverware

Candelabra
Candelabra
Candlesticks & Candelabra

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

Casket
Casket
Casket

4 ball feet, hinged lid with silk pin cushion & 2 hat pins.
£155

Cigarette Box
Miniature silver cigarette box
Cigarette Box, Ashtray, Cigarette Holder & Cigarette

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

Cigar Box
Cigar Box
Cigar Box

Hinged lid, wood lined, with cigar.
£130

Cigarette Table Lighter
Cigar Box
Cigarette Table Lighter

£67

Cake Basket
Cake Basket
Cake Basket

Swing handle and cakes. 20mm dia.
£120

Cake Stand
Cake Stand
Cake Stand

2 tier
£190

Pierced Georgian Basket
Cake Stand
Pierced Georgian Basket

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

Oval Basket
Oval Basket
Oval Basket

Pierced
£115

Rolling Blotter
Rolling blotter
Rolling Blotter, Spirit Flask, Seal & Paper Knife

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
Chamber stick
Waiter & Chamber Stick

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

Cocktail Shaker
Cocktail Shaker
Cocktail Shaker

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

Gallery Tray
Gallery Tray
Gallery Tray

With two pierced handles and ball feet. There are two sizes:
Large, inside 44mm x 29mm
£165
Medium, inside 35mm x 23mm
£150

Inkstand or Standish
Inkstand or Standish
Inkstand or Standish

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

Inkstand
Inkstand
Inkstand

Pierced gallery and 4 feet, complete with ink pot, pounce pot and taperstick with taper and quill pen.
£155

Inkbottle Stand
Inkbottle and stand
Inkbottle Stand

18mm wide. A later desk piece c/w with a blue inkbottle with lift off cover and quill pen.
£125

Ink Bottle
Ink Bottle
Ink Bottle, Stand & Paper Knife

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

Inkwell
Inkwell
Inkwell

Lift off top, c/w quill pen
£48

Pen and Capstan Inkwell
Silver Pen & Capstan Inkwell
Silver Pen & Capstan Inkwell

Pen
£16
Capstan Inkwell with hinged cap (comes with ink and quill pen)
£105

Fountain Pen
Fountain Pen
Fountain Pen

The cap is a push fit. 11mm long.
£45

Glove powderer, compact and tweezers
Compact
Glove Powderer, Compact & Tweezers

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

Hair comb
Hair comb
Hair Comb

Pierced
£18

C.R. Mackintosh Jug & Basin
C.R. Mackintosh Jug & Basin
C.R. Mackintosh Jug & Basin

30mm dia. A pair sit on the washstand at the Hill House.
£250

Lipstick
Lipstick
Lipstick

Pull off cap, 6mm long.
£35

Powder Box
Powder Box
Powder Box

With lift off lid and a pad for the powder kept inside.
£70

Photo Frames
Photo Frames
Photo Frames

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

Salver
Salver
Salver

Chippendale border and three feet. The well is about 20mm dia.
£100

Scissors
Scissors
Scissors

Jointed, 8mm long.
£35
Also available: Thimble
£9

Pin Cushion
Pin Cushion
Pin Cushion

Silk cushion & 2 hat pins
£85

Trophy Cup
Trophy Cup
Trophy Cup

Ebony plinth with silver band.
£105

Tantalus
Tantalus
Tantalus

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

Tray
Tray
Tray

Shown here with decanter and glasses by Gerd Felka for illustration only.
£75

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Candelabra
Casket
Cigarette Box
Cigar Box
Cigarette Table Lighter
Cake Basket
Cake Stand
Pierced Georgian Basket
Oval Basket
Rolling Blotter
Waiter
Cocktail Shaker
Gallery Tray
Inkstand or Standish
Inkstand
Inkbottle Stand
Ink Bottle
Inkwell
Pen and Capstan Inkwell
Fountain Pen
Glove powderer, compact and tweezers
Hair comb
C.R. Mackintosh Jug & Basin
Lipstick
Powder Box
Photo Frames
Salver
Scissors
Pin Cushion
Trophy Cup
Tantalus
Tray
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Silver Cutlery

Fiddle Pattern
Fiddle Pattern Cutlery
Fiddle Pattern 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 Cutlery
Fish Cutlery
Fish Knives & Forks

Fish fork, fiddle pattern
£14
Fish knife, fiddle pattern
£14
Fish fork, bone handle
£29
Fish knife, bone handle
£24

Dessert Set
Miniature silver tea caddy
Dessert Set

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

Old English Cutlery
Miniature silver tea caddy
Old English Cutlery

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

Hannoverian Cutlery
Hannoverian Cutlery
Hannoverian Cutlery

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.

Serving Pieces
Serving Pieces
Serving Pieces

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

Serveware and Asparagus Tongs
silver servers and asparagus tongs
Serving Pieces

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
Fish Servers
Fish Servers

Fish Servers, slice & fork
£65
Bread knife, bone handle and blade with serrated edge
£28

Ladle and Fork
Ladle and fork
Punch Ladle & Toasting Fork

Punch Ladle, ebony handle.
£57
Toasting fork, ebony handle, for cosy evenings by the fire.
£42

Baby Pusher & Spoon
silver baby pusher and spoon
Baby Spoon & Pusher

Often Christening pieces.
£32

Carving Set
Carving Set
Carving Set

Stainless steel with bone handles. Knife, fork and sharpener.
£175

Contemporary Cutlery Set
Contemporary Cutlery Set
Cutlery Set

Contemporary design in stainless steel
£22 per set of 3

Corkscrew
Corkscrew
Corkscrew

Stainless steel blade. 9mm long.
£42

Apple Corer
Apple Corer
Apple Corer

£16

Canteen
Canteen
Canteen

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

C.R. Mackintosh Cutlery & Flatware
miniature mackintosh cutlery
C.R. Mackintosh Cutlery & Flatware

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

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Fiddle Pattern
Fish Cutlery
Dessert Set
Old English Cutlery
Hannoverian Cutlery
Serving Pieces
Serveware and Asparagus Tongs
Fish Servers
Ladle and Fork
Baby Pusher & Spoon
Carving Set
Contemporary Cutlery Set
Corkscrew
Apple Corer
Canteen
C.R. Mackintosh Cutlery & Flatware
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