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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 1596235, member: 136&quot;]Nate, those are wonderful! I&#039;m all for lightly polishing the detail on these spoons, but with mine, I always FULLY polished the plain parts - like the backs of the bowls, when not detailed...</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a gazillion silver souvenir spoons, myself: a collection of (now antique) Washington, DC spoons - about 3 dozen or so - sadly, packed away right now with most of the rest of my silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also have a LOT (<i>dozens</i>... perhaps a hundred) of special Christmas spoons, as well as a number of school spoons from the colleges I attended. Then there are the spoons from other countries - ONLY places I&#039;ve been, plus a collection of Scandinavian guilloche enamel spoons and more.</p><p><br /></p><p>On top of that, I have quite a few spoons engraved with my own relatives&#039; names and/or initials. For a while there, I looked for pieces that were engraved &quot;Lillian&quot; or &quot;Mary&quot; or &quot;Grace&quot; or &quot;Elsie&quot;, etc, just because I thought it was sort of cool! (Don&#039;t ask me - I&#039;m weird!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, souvenir spoons are a while different animal when it comes to collecting silver. As you said,</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, and that makes them hard to send to the smelter for scrap, doesn&#039;t it???</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s just something about the design of these things that gets me every time![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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