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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10469496, member: 111&quot;]Most of my silver is packed away and I expect it to be a year or two before I can get it back out, but when I have a bit of spare time, have been trying to photograph and inventory some of it, partially because I don&#039;t always remember what I have.&nbsp; Not too long ago, believe I got most, if not all, of the lily of the valley and other bell-shaped flower motif spoons done. </p><p><br /></p><p>I started picking up bits of silver as a teenager in the mid &#039;70s, and one day bought a teaspoon by Watson with a beautifully detailed Lily of the Valley, my birth-flower, it had an engraved &#039;C&#039; and I used it every day, later I saw another Lily of the Valley spoon, this one by Whiting Mfg., the bowl acid-etched with a view of the Joliet Penitentiary complete with a tiny prisoner in stripes, it was before the Blues Brothers, but familiar to me from living in Illinois as a kid, and that was pretty much the beginning of my souvenir spoon collection (not to mention all sorts of other spoons and flatware).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>First pic is detail of the &#039;Joliet&#039; bowl on the Whiting spoon which is #3 in the second pic, pattern introduced in 1885, the Watson spoon is #1 in the third pic, design patent D36385 issued in 1903:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526663[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526664[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526665[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526666[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526667[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526668[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526669[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526670[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="5">The rest to follow...</font></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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