One of my tasks has been to make a list of everything we will need to serve guests breakfast and as it ran to more than a page of my notebook there is lots to sort out. We needed some cutlery as Dave rightly pointed out that we probably don't want to use our 'best' set. With that in mind we drove to the Arthur Price factory shop in Lichfield and after a huge amount of searching in their 'remainders' bin, managed to make up four place settings of the rattail design (which I love) in silver plate. D almost lost the will to live but I was a woman on a mission! They are a family company which was established over a 100 years ago.
The Rat Tail design is one of the oldest of the English designs dating from the early 1600's with the distinctive "tail" on the backs of the spoon bowls and forks. This feature developed in an age when craftsmen made spoons in two pieces joining the bowl and the handle together by means of soldering using a tapered tail as additional strength to the joint. This design also features a prominent rib down the front of the handle.
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