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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 197950, member: 111&quot;]Haven&#039;t really been able to add to my collection in the past few years, but the pic of the cases on my dining room wall is about half of my spoons - decided years ago to cull as I added, limiting it to 500 spoons, upgraded to 600, quite a bit over that at the moment, probably time to cull again (the framed items are &#039;spoon&#039; postcards.&nbsp; The other two pics show a couple of rare pieces, the dragonfly reliably attributed to German jewelry manufacturer Meyle &amp; Mayer; the other a Gorham cast souvenir spoon (they were only produced for a short time in the early 1890s), pictured with an 1895 ad I discovered, showing the 1892 design for the Alpha Phi sorority at Syracuse University - last I heard, the only other known example was in the RISD Gorham Collection, origin of the design noted as unknown...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]56390[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]56391[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]56392[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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