We inherited a tiny butter knife with its own sheath

[Snooks1971]

Not inherited obviously (not in the will) but DD saved it from a kitchen drawer of ‘stuff’. From DH’s Dad a couple of years ago. It’s not sentimental, it’s just so random. It has pride of place in the kitchen and is strangely amusing. Lay the table with it sometimes next to a proper sized fork for the unsuspecting teenager.

What other random items do you have that you love?

I got an art deco tortoishell spring loaded pocket fan from my granny.
It so quirky and unusual.

@Yellowdays
The spoons! I love mine! Normal teaspoon for scale.
Also the tiny boot button hook I mentioned earlier

My DH keeps my great grandfather’s police truncheon beside the bed in case of burglars.

or at least, that’s what he says.

A single silver espresso spoon from my granny, it’s about 1.5” long and looks like I stole it from a dolly.

I have my grandad’s walking stick by the front door. I used it myself when l had sciatica. There is something in every room of our house that belonged to either my grandparents or parents. I find it very comforting.

I have my Mum's Kenwood Chef mixer given to her for Christmas 1967. Still in working order and about to go away for it's first ever service by a specialist company.

I have my mothers cake slice. She bought it on her honeymoon in Amsterdam in 1958. I have also inherited her Apostle spoons there was a full set back in 1958 and now there is only 1 left Dd uses it to eat yogurt, says it make the yogurt taste better.

THat's really nice. I just realised that we too have other objects around the house from my grandmother and stepfathers grandparents too. Lovely to see them each day isn't it.
Things like a walking stick with a carving on it, a Wedgwood jar, a pot to store fat in in the fridge I don't use it for that now days

I have a slotted spoon which I think is a sugar sifter, I like its shape and decoration. It’s silver so tarnishes easily.

I can only ever hear the word sheath in relation to sex in that Judy Blume book, with Ralph the penis

the spoon was my great aunties

Clearing our family home - these are in the cutlery drawer ? Are they the coffee bean spoons ?

I have a silver commemorative spoon from 1905 & a mug for the coronation of Edward 8th.

Both beloved because of who they came from.

I have a small cast iron safe that was my brother's. It is currently in one of my dolls house shops.

I have my Grandad’s Kukri knife - a large dagger given to him by his Gurkha guide in India in the 1920s. Strangely, it’s always been stored in a cloth money bag from a bank, looking more like part of a robbery 😂

My mum had a slotted mixing spoon that prior to getting an electric mixer in about 1970(that I still use) was how she made cakes and Yorkshire pudding. When we emigrated she gave it to my best friend (who still uses it) She immediately regretted giving it away. Then I was in a charity shop and bought one. It’s the best thing for pancake and pudding batter.

I'm the last person on one side of my family so have ended up with lots of little curiosities!

I use my uncle's mug every morning with breakfast. It's a Denby mug that is at least 30 years old. One day I'll be able to justify blowing 400 quid on a full set but for now I'll stick with the mug.

I still have to go through the rest of the stuff in storage, most of which is my grandparents stuff but also some of my dad's. I know there are most of the things already mentioned here, little fruit knives, pickle forks etc. I'm also hoping to find my nans saucepan which was bought as a wedding present in the 40s and I grew up learning to cook with.

So far I've found some real treasures, like an old slide projector (still works) and about 500 slides of family photos (some of which are just beautiful), I have found the portrait painted of my grandad when he was enlisted into the army at 18, an extensive stamp collection that must have been my grandads or possibly even great grandads judging by the age of some of the stamps and so many other delightful little things

My nans gravy spoon. I use it all the time and always reminds me of sunday mornings cooking with her and her sunday dinners.

I have a small but deep rectangular ladle/serving spoon which used to be my father's.

Around 40 years ago he started using it to heat the brandy in (over a candle) before setting it alight and pouring it over the Christmas pudding.

That is now its sole purpose. It sits in the kitchen drawer doing nothing for 364 days a year, but on Christmas Day it becomes "the brandy spoon".

I have my ggm’s breadboard -one of those round ones. It used to have the word pane around the edge rather than bread because in 1906 when she got married, she promptly went from rural Victoria to Buenos Aires for a few years.

Then I have her autograph book from the boat home full of Royal Society scientists on their way out to see the passage of Halley’s Comet.

A couple of years ago, I decided that I was going to start using handkerchiefs (?) instead of tissues and went into a back cupboard and, in a bag, found all my grandmother’s glory box doilies, napkins and hankies. So I have a good supply of beautiful linen.

I have family letters from 1915-1940 with news of so many people. Really fascinating. There is also one floating around from 1899 which I have a transcript of.

Among other things, I have a set of 'tot glasses' that my mum and dad were given as a wedding present in the late 1940s; they are beautiful jewel colours and I love looking at them. I think of my parents and our old house whenever I see those little glasses.

I rescued a set of 6 butter knives when clearing out my parent's sideboard. I don't ever remember us using them when I lived at home.
I do remember using the set of fish knives and forks that I rescued though.

@Diplidocus4 yes they are coffee bean spoons if silver worth about £40-60 for a set of 6 if silver plated (EPNS) about £10 but lovely to have the ends are bakelite
@newtowelsplease it is a small pickle or cocktail fork for olives or tiny pickled onions often used with canapes

OHs grandma's palette knife that she used when she was a chef in a hospital..it has her initials carved into the wooden handle.

I don't have them yet as my parents are still very much alive, but my mum has a wonderful collection of button hooks that I used to love playing with (as much as you can play with button hooks) as a child. Really hoping she doesn't get rid of them without at least mentioning to me she's thinking of doing so. No idea what prompted her to start a button hook collection, I should probably ask! Also used to love it when she let me clean the silver ones, with Goddard's silver dip that stunk out the kitchen, and silver polish.