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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10470073, member: 111&quot;]Hehe, we had a book from the show, can&#039;t recall what happened to it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Geez, &#039;museum&#039; reminded me I&#039;d forgotten a piece (it has its own file).</p><p><br /></p><p>Twenty years ago I took a shot on a spoon listed with little information and fuzzy pics, I was the only bidder and it was very inexpensive - when it arrived, my hunch was correct, an uncommon and desirable Gorham cast souvenir spoon.&nbsp; I contacted everyone I knew amongst spoon collectors, the only information given was that the only other known example was in the Gorham collection at RISD and nothing had been found regarding the meaning of its design - I sent it off to be photographed for an upcoming book on Gorham spoons.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the next few years, continued researching, finally finding its story, eventually passing the information on to the author of the book after his first of many attempts to buy my spoon - he just let me know last year that he finally found a third example for his collection.&nbsp; A couple of years ago found another Gorham spoon with its 2015 receipt that I&#039;d apparently tucked away in a jewelry box and forgotten (I have no memory of buying it) - turned out the Gorham book author had just found one too, never having seen one before, with zero information in the Gorham archives.</p><p><br /></p><p>So here is another lily of the valley spoon:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526688[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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