UNUSUAL SERVING PIECES

When you are trying to locate matching items for your pattern always measure the length in inches to the nearest eight of an inch. The items by different manufacturers and different patterns vary greatly.

• Bacon Fork
  This serving fork has many short tines. It is an interesting and collectible piece in the patterns which produced it.

• Beef Fork
  This serving fork is a shorter than a cold meat fork. It has tines that flair out ward. It may also be called a "Chipped beef fork".

• Bon Bon Spoon / Scoop
  A small serving spoon that is often pierced to serve small nuts, mints, bon bons etc. In some patterns, this piece may appear to be a tiny shovel.

• Bottle Opener
  This is an opener for the "pry off" type of bottle.

• Cake Fork
  This is different from a serving fork by having very slim long tines. T-bars are common in cake forks.

• Cheese Server
  This item looks like a mini pie server to serve slices of cheese.

• Fish Server
  This item looks like a large pie/cake server. It is used to lift a large slice of fish (or other flat item) from the serving dish to the plate.

• Jelly Spoon / Knife
  This piece is a flat bowled spoon that often has a raised edge on one side.

• Lemon Fork
  This fork often looks like a two-pronged cocktail fork. In some patterns this fork will have 3 tines which flare outward.

• Mustard Spoon
  A long spoon that may have a pear shaped bowl (wide end away from the handle.) It may have a somewhat elongated bowl. In some patterns this may be interchangeable with an olive spoon. These two spoons may be entirely different items in some patterns.

• Pierced Olive Spoon
  A long spoon that may have a pear shaped bowl.

• Tomato Server
  This serving item looks like a large round flat spatula. It is for serving tomato slices. It is also useful for serving pastries or other flat or sliced items.