(9) Cut Glass Salt Cellars and Sterling Silver Spoons - 0.855 ozt. The glass pieces are all different shapes and sizes and unmarked. The spoons are also all different shapes and sizes. 

Condition: Overall great. 

Size: 1 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. 

A salt cellar is an article of tableware for holding and dispensing salt. In British English, the term can be used interchangeably for what in North American English are called salt shakers. Salt cellars can be either lidded or open, and are found in a wide range of sizes, from large shared vessels to small individual dishes. Styles range from simple to ornate to whimsical, using materials including glass, ceramic, metals, ivory, wood, and plastic. Salt cellars are known, in various forms, by assorted names including salter, salt-box, open salt, salt dip, standing salt, master salt, and salt dish. A master salt is the large receptacle from which the smaller, distributed, salt dishes are filled; according to fashion or custom it was lidded, or open, or covered with a cloth. A standing salt is also a master salt, so-named because it remained in place as opposed to being passed around the table. The term salt cellar is also used generally to describe any container for table salt, thus encompassing salt shakers and salt pigs. Use of salt cellars is documented as early as ancient Rome. They continued to be used through the first half of the 20th Century, growing more (or less) extravagant in keeping with the trends of the day. However, usage began to decline with the introduction of free-flowing salt in 1911, and in the early 1930s a process was developed that coats each grain of salt with an anti-caking agent to keep them from sticking together. These advances and changing tastes made open salt cellars almost obsolete, and they have been almost entirely replaced by salt shakers in the 21st Century. However, salt cellars were some of the earliest acknowledged collectibles, with one ancient Roman senator supposedly accumulating hundreds in his lifetime (then referred to as salinum). During the Middle Ages elaborate master salt cellars evolved, but it was not until the 17th Century that tiny salt spoons were invented, with the Industrial Revolution leading to their mass production and a booming collectors market. The Cracow Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka, Poland has one of the largest collections of salt cellars, including over 1,000 objects made of porcelain, gold, silver, glass, wood, bone, quartz, mother-of-pearl, and much more, with some pieces valued at many tens of thousands of dollars.

Overall great.