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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10468982, member: 111&quot;]Nice, Frank!&nbsp; Always nice to see others&#039; spoons!</p><p><br /></p><p>I love spoons in general (even have a nice collection of carved wooden spoons, mostly Norwegian), but actually started a souvenir spoon addiction as a teenager.&nbsp; One of the interesting things about their manufacture is that often the handles and bowls were struck separately, so the Watson Lookout Mountain bowls would have been soldered to the #1044 (Squaw) handles for the Chattanooga market.&nbsp; The addition of little enamel plaques like on your Charles M. Robbins soldier (design patented in 1917) was also a way to make the souvenir specific, there is an entwined &#039;USA&#039; under the insignia, and how wonderful to have a souvenir of your grandfather&#039;s service.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Watson Straker-designed enamel orange spoon (#883, Orange Blossom) is lovely, Shepard produced similar designs - more common to find the oranges on Florida and California souvenirs (there was an enamel &#039;Corn&#039; design available).&nbsp; The pierced Alvin Easter Lily was part of a birth-flower series, the &#039;4&#039; for April, I have the #5 in my lily of the valley collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gotta love the Canadian Roden Bros. gold nugget spoon, I have an American mining spoon with tiny nuggets in a pan and an Alaskan spoon with a nugget in the center of a carved ivory bunchberry blossom - with the price of gold now, there&#039;s a bit of intrinsic value there...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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