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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 3782784, member: 111&quot;]Hi, JerseyEarlyBird - welcome to the forums.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Glad you reminded me of this piece, meant to post around this time last year, but was side-tracked,&nbsp; because it was just a couple days before all h*ll broke loose, that it was in a bunch of silver I took to my friendly precious metals dealer, along with my scrap gold, to have him test on his fancy $30,000. XRF spectrometer (after all this time, he pretty much knows that some of my stuff is never intended for scrap).</p><p><br /></p><p>The result on this one surprised both of us - it tested as very close to fine silver, his reaction, like mine was that it was almost certainly heavily silverplated, don&#039;t remember the number, but it had to be at least a certain &#039;micron&#039; thickness for his apparatus to not penetrate and read the other metals - of course, I rejected his offer to file it for further testing, so hard to tell the metal underneath.&nbsp; My last unmarked piece, already damaged, that had to be filed because the reading didn&#039;t seem right to him, tested the same high fineness as its first result, but I definitely wouldn&#039;t expect it on this piece (nor fully trust my jeweler&#039;s testing)...</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I believe this piece was most likely produced as a souvenir-type potlatch spoon, similar to the BOMA spoons mentioned by All_fakes, and there are probably quite a few others out there in addition to yours and mine - still a sweet piece, and still part of my collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>The sterling (marked) spoon below is not mine, but I do have one like it, designed by Amos Wallace, originally with a seal for the Alaska Purchase Centennial in 1967, it continued in production without the seal - he also designed a spoon for the 1980 Juneau Centennial, produced in copper.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]315934[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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