LAURA SCOTT

These are identical to the ones that I have but with your info above, I do wonder whether they may have been knives designed for use in primary schools. I have an interest in vintage cutlery having inherited a vast amount from my late aunt and I have spent many hours researching what I have. With reference to the above auction site listing, I doubt that these are dessert spoons or cheese knives as they wouldn't hold much pudding and they don't have a cutting edge for cheese but suspect that the seller was hedging their bets! Many thanks for your help, it is very much appreciated.

No I don't think it is a marrow scoop, which seems to be long but the same width, whereas the one that I have is wider at the base where it joins the handle, making an inverted V shape to a rounded tip.

I am trying to identify some cutlery that I recently came across and after a quick google, it brought me to the Sheffield Form. I have just read through a really interesting and informative post about Sheffield cutlery makers (started in 2005) which answered a lot of questions except two! I have been unable to work out why H M & CO (Harris Miller & Co) should be indentified alongside David Mellor on a well known interenet auction site. Was David Mellor the designer of cutlery for H M & CO? And if not, why would they be identified together? In the original post, someone specifically asked about an odd design of knife, which I also have and wonder if anyone who worked there, would know what it was for or who it was for? It measures approx 17.8cms long maximum and although it looks like a knife, it doesn't have a blade, it has more like a long, thinner triangular shaped, very shallow bowl, which comes to a rounded tip. The date on the reverse of the handle is either 1965 or 1966. Thank you in advance for any help.