Pap Spoons

The Pap Spoon was designed to feed soft food to infants and the invalids. They generally fall in size between a dessert spoon and a teaspoon, although usually longer that the fruit spoon.They are often listed as "Pap/Fruit Spoons", which gives me pause, since the fruit spoon in a pattern is generally referred to as a "Fruit/Orange Spoon"  (or "Orange Spoon" or separate "Grapefruit Spoon" in Tiffany patterns) and is an entirely different animal, sometimes having a gold wash to protect the silver from the citric acid of the fruit.


Versailles by Gorham  (6 1/8 inches)  as opposed to 5 7/8 for Fruit/Orange spoon



Hepplewhite Plain by Reed and Barton (6 inches) as opposed to 5 3/4 for Fruit/Orange spoon



Rococo by Dominick and Haff (6 3/8 inches) as opposed to 5 1/2 for Fruit/Orange spoon



St. James by Tiffany (6 inches) as opposed to 5 inches for an Orange spoon