Spoon (Period)

Ladle (Period)

A spoon is an eating utensil, with a small shallow bowl attached to a handle.  It is found in the canting arms of Sponeley, 15^th C. [Neubecker 136], as well as the arms of von Korkwitz, 1605 [Siebmacher 72].  The spoon is affronty by default, with the bowl to chief.

A similar charge is the “ladle”, with a deeper bowl and a long hooked handle, used for serving soup or other liquids.  It too is a period charge, found in the canting arms (from dial. Italian cazùu, “ladle”) of de Cazullis de Crema, mid-15^th C. [Triv 98], and of de Cazaviis, c.1550 [BSB Cod.Icon 270:283].  The ladle is palewise, handle to chief, by Society default.

Unique to the Society is the “spurtle”, of which we have a single registration.  The blazon is misleading:  a spurtle is a Scots cooking tool for turning oatcakes, dated in the OED to the 16^th Century, which is not the charge used in the Society.  That charge is drawn as a notched spoon, resembling the utensil modernly called a “spork”.  Given the discrepancy of the terminology, and the modern nature of the artifact, it is unlikely to be currently registerable without documentation.

See also fork, strainer.

The Shire of Canale bears:  Sable, a ladle reversed and on a gore dexter Or a laurel wreath sable.

The Madrone Culinary Guild bears:  Gules, in fess a spurtle, a dagger, and a spoon palewise Or.

Máirgrég ingen mic Gillebrath bears:  Lozengy sable and Or, a spoon gules.