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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4332246, member: 111&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; They&#039;re quite functional, tuck the index finger into the loop, hold in place with the thumb, very stable - the ones with a smooth stem rather than twisted are a bit more comfortable.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Heh, You&#039;d be surprised at the locations commemorated on souvenir spoons, my first, purchased as a teenager, was a lovely Watson lily of the valley pattern with an etched scene of Joliet Penitentiary in the bowl.</p><p><br /></p><p>These spoons aren&#039;t common, and I hadn&#039;t added one to my collection because I&#039;m basically pretty thrifty, but this one was a good buy.&nbsp; Posting a link to a 2016 auction of a collection, they apparently took the owner&#039;s word that they were all probably produced by Denver firm H.H. Tammen circa 1892-95, on the basis of an ad that doesn&#039;t mention spoons - personally have never seen evidence that Tammen produced souvenir spoons prior to the early 20th century (sterling, no agate), and their 1894 catalog neither mentions nor pictures spoons.&nbsp; They also claim Tammen marketed their agate spoons at the Columbian Exposition, but can&#039;t recall seeing any similar spoons indicating they were souvenirs of the fair, nor any mention that Tammen was an exhibitor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Colorado Springs &quot;lapidist and manufacturing jeweler&quot; Fred H. Horn patented the two designs shown below in 1893, as well as a simpler design in 1892 - I have several simple ads of his dating from 1890 to 1896, when he stated he was moving and would &quot;sell anything in the store at big discount&quot;, the business was reported sold in 1897.&nbsp; He only took 3-1/2 year design patents, so they would have been fair game by 1897, perhaps Tammen or someone else continued production...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/Cowboys-Indians-Miners_as42334_p6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/Cowboys-Indians-Miners_as42334_p6" rel="nofollow">https://holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com/Cowboys-Indians-Miners_as42334_p6</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356430[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Such an elegant design, a classic really - one of my references says Gustav Gaudernack designed it for David Andersen...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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