'Big Surprise' Hidden Inside 150-Year-Old Irish Silver 'Spoon Warmer' | Antiques Roadshow

well I remember my father buying it along with a lot of mes silver he was a in the Royal Scots fusers right and the regiment was going to India and my father retired that was in 1935 I think and he bought this and several other pieces which I didn't keep when he died I sold them because quite honestly insurances and everything else was too much but I've always loved this I'm not surprised actually because looking at it very quickly my initial reaction is a spoon warmer absolutely then you get a big surprise when it you open the lid this is it because now a money box yes a swear box on the table a swear box yes oh is that is that and anybody that swore had to put do you know what they had to put in no I don't well I suppose earlier you could have put a sovereign absolutely yes and that would soon add I don't know what date it is or how old it is actually well the first of all of course the it does straight away beg the question is it original or not the fact that it is what I'd like to know it's and here's another surprise actually because normally if you get a spoon warmer of this form which there are many around they're electroplated yes and that's Sil silver this is silver yeah but there's another Sprite because it's Irish silver really so what is the Scottish regiment doing of I wouldn't know well the date of this here we are it's doublin 1866 right there has to be a reason for but I know definitely it was the swear box right and actually the maker there actually the maker funny enough is this this Mark over here which is the JS but we've got the name West appearing underneath there yes and this is something they did in in Dublin you would get the maker as we've got there and then you'd get the retailer putting his stamp on right little Locker of course being the Buddy ins side obviously it has to be locked up yes no key I'm afraid it should be pretty easy to find the key it be very it'll be a very basic key for all that um but interestingly it's marked also if you see in the lid there yes now that confirms that the lid is original yes to the nautilus shell yes it's it's lovely the way they've done the flush hinge there as well yes I think it's lovely cuz had this been a spoon warmer either it would have been left open right some do have lids but they have a slot cut at the front yes for the spoon yes so this convinces me that it is a swear box that it was made as a swear box yes so fascinating object I have to say it's a very difficult object to put a value on have you got it insured or anything it's yes it's well I mean it's in the household insurance I have oh just I mean it's not specified um I suggest you perhaps ensure it for somewhere around 5,000 really yes

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Length: 3min 10sec (190 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 05 2023