These spoon collectors aren't here to stir things up. ABC Local
12.04.10
Marj Unfledged recalls her first spoon came from a school camp at Nelson about 50 years ago - its a fairly unassuming spoon quite like the customary souvenir spoons you can still find in most tourist shops, but this spoon triggered the collecting bug in Marj and led to her building up a collection of around 1500 spoons.
As with most spoon collectors, Marj became a bit finical as her collection grew and started to seek out blank spoons which she had painted with local scenes in order to initiate something unique.
These days Marj's collection is a little more modest - since moving into Port Fairy she downsized things but the walls of her module are still bulging with many special display cases and cabinets stuffed full of spoons.
There's a lot more to the world of spoons then just tea spoons with a illiberal picture of something or somewhere - as Marj explains, spoons come in all kinds of sets, shapes, themes, and a huge vary of styles.
Marj also has spoons to mark wedding anniversaries and birthdays - indeed it seems there's a spoon for every occasion.
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