Google Books is DANGEROUS.

[bunnyjadwiga]

No, really.
I found an image in Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts of Queen Elizabeth's cutlery set, and was enthusing about sucket forks... and of course my geek tried to pretend that sucket-forks aren't cool-- this is a man who lusts after the titanium spork in the ThinkGeek catalog (ok, let's get real, geeks really want one of everything on the ThinkGeek website, please)...
Anyway, so I was looking at Google Images of sporks, and found this book:

The Authentic Tudor & Stuart Dolls' House by Brian Long
http://books.google.com/books?id=CE9P4oFr838C&dq=sucket+fork+elizabethan

which includes images/documentation of convertible sucket-forks, not to mention all kinds of other documentation including LATRINES...

WHIMPER. MUST.HAVE.NOW! WHIMPER!

Go look. Drool. I shall call B&N tomorrow and order it. Buying books I can't afford again.

Comments

[angorian.livejournal.com]

haha... my geek actually bought a titanium spork from MEC! They even have a collapsible one. It's camping equipment, so you know that somehow makes it a valuable and non-silly purchase. ;)

[strawberrykaren.livejournal.com]

I didn't see them on the link ... but do you mean the sort of fork that converts to a spoon? I've got a few of those linked from http://www.larsdatter.com/cutlery.htm ...

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

I've drooled over the Miniature Embroidery books, but I didn't know that there was a dollhouse book to go with them.

*whimper*

[jdulac.livejournal.com]

I've just ordered the book from B&N... very cool!

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Ordered. (Although I went through Amazon and not B&N. One click goodness and free shipping and all that...)