Why to Collect Spoons

          What is a Spoon?

• utensil for eating sloppy food
• a reason to collect hallmarks
• historical reference point for social or political change
  
  
  

  
  

  Why Collect Antique Silver Spoons?

•  beautiful object
•  rare or missing pieces
•  satisfaction of completing a collection
•  collecting hallmarks
•  research
•  a sound financial investment
•  use! 

         Type of Collections

General

fancy spoon (common collection)

Early 

before 18th century spoon (valuable collection)

Form 

style or pattern -building a canteen (Apostle Spoons)

Type 

Condiment Spoon(cheap and easy to find)

Sugar Tongs
(cheap and easy to find)

Caddy Spoon
(not uncommon but expensive)

Basting Spoons(not uncommon but expensive)

Medicine Spoon
(rare and expensive)

Mote Spoon
(rare and expensive)

Cocktail Spoon
(under-priced)

Origin

Chicago

Austrialia

Brighton

Olanda

Ladysmith Natal - South Africa

Singapore

Stratford Ontario

Maker

Paul Storr

Hester Bateman

Date

(to read more and reference: http://www.antiquesilverspoons.co.uk/Collecting%20spoons.htm)

There is no spoon

THE MATRIX (1999) - The Spoon Scene

Storyline

Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.

(reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/)

The Spoon

Young Monk: “Do not try and bend the spoon—that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.” Neo: “What truth?” Young Monk: “There is no spoon.” 

When Neo visits the Oracle in The Matrix, he sees a young boy in the Oracle’s living room who is bending a spoon in mid-air. The boy, dressed as a Buddhist monk, bends the spoon just by looking at it. When Neo approaches him to learn the secret, the boy tells him that in order to bend the spoon, Neo must bend only his mind. In the Matrix, the spoon doesn’t exist—it’s just a code or a program that tells Neo’s brain that he’s looking at a spoon. Neo’s mind, on the other hand, does exist. What he sees before him is not a spoon, but rather an idea his brain has created of a spoon—his own perception. He can change reality by changing his perception.

Neo remembers this exchange as he becomes more confident in his ability to break the rules of the Matrix. All he has to do is remember that the rules he breaks aren’t actual rules. Just as there is no spoon, there is no gravity, there is no time—all these things are lies the machines tell his brain. Neo can fly, for example, because he can see gravity is a false construct. Once Neo understands that “there is no spoon,” he gains more power in the Matrix.

(reference: http://www.sparknotes.com/film/matrix/quotes.html#explanation3)