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[Teat spoon, bombilla or sick siphon]

A silver pap feeder.

Marks: Hallmarks on lower end: Crown B I; on stem: Ditto repeated three times.

Shape: single curve, more pronounced at mouthpiece. The moutpiece measures 1 cm in diameter.

Includes invoice for purchase of item in 1941.

Infants--Care--History; Infants' supplies

Still Image

An 18th century teat spoon, one of two sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Gallery, New York, as part of the estate of a New England family. There are very few references to "teat spoons" in the literature. In Esther Forbes' Paul Revere and the world he lived in reference is made on p. 80 to a silver teat spoon Revere had made for his infant daughter. A bombilla (Spanish American) is a " small silver or gold perforated tube made for drinking the mate." This pap feeder is of English origin. Its form is known as "swan-necked". The hook serves to attach the feeder to the rim of a cup.

Gift of Miss Alice Wright, 1966.

History of Nursing in Pacific Canada

2006

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