Post #196676 by captnkirk on Sun, Nov 6, 2005 10:13 AM

If you are going to collect spoons, I suggest you get Marie Claude Delahaye's spoon collectors book (L'Absinthe, les Cuilerès). It is in French but once you figure a few words you can use even if you don't speak the language (I don't).

You can find it here:

http://www.lafeeabsinthe.com/acatalog/books_mcd.htm
You can probably find it at the French Amazon.com site or on the publisher's webpage too. Try the website of Marie-Claude Delahaye's Absinthe Museum in France too.

It classifies every known antique spoon and a few repro spoons by style, rates each and every known spoon by rarity. There is a photo for each one also. It shows you how to spot forgeries every thing you need to know absinthe spoon collecting.

Otherwise you will be like a coin collector wondering why one coin is worth $1 and almost the exact same one is a million.

[ Edited by: captnkirk 2005-11-10 12:20 ]