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"   In the early 1900s, you couldn&amp;#039;t get away with using just any old knife for handling butter. You needed a butter pick. And for plucking that special chocolate treat off the platter? The bon bon scoop, of course. You think it&amp;#039;s hard now trying to figure out which fork to use? Try living during the Victorian Age when nearly every entr\u00E9e and side dish had its own utensil. Before refrigeration and preservatives, food spoilage was a major concern, especially among the wealthy who thought sticking the same serving piece into different foods of varying temperatures would cause &amp;quot;cross-contamination.&amp;quot; As a result, the bacon fork, the sardine server and the marrow scoop were among the unusual utensils invented for those who could afford to be so finicky about their health.  To help us sort through the collection of odd and little-known utensils now available at [link href=&amp;quot;http://www.liveauctioneers.com&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot; link_updater_label=&amp;quot;external&amp;quot;]LiveAuctioneers.com, we turned to antique silver specialist Carla Zarse of Replacements Limited. Our roundup is a look at some of the strangest silverware used during the 19th and early 20th centuries\u2014silverware that not even your mother would likely know what to do with. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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