Born With a Silver Spoon

These silver christening spoons and boxed sets might seem a little out of step with today’s slick, modern baby gifts – but there’s a timeless charm to them that collectors still adore.

Once a go-to christening gift, the classic sets with egg cups or curved feeding spoons and food pushers now feel like relics from another age. But that’s precisely their appeal. Plain antique spoons make for elegant regifting, but for serious collectors, it’s all about the personal touches.

Top of the wish list? Spoons engraved with the baby’s name, birth weight, time, and date. One standout example in this collection features a beautifully detailed stork cradling the baby in its wings, while the bowl holds a miniature clock with moving hands to mark the birth time, a tiny AM/PM mount, and clock weights that double as birth weight markers. Even the reverse is richly worked, showing the back of the stork perched on a chimney pot.

It’s detail like this that lifts a simple spoon into something truly special – a tiny silver time capsule.