Featured Sterling souvenir or baby spoon?

i need help · Mar 19, 2019

Thank you for all that information, Cheryl! I didn’t think it looked like a good fit and thought someone just put the logo on when something broke. I may never know about the CI.

Figtree3 · Mar 19, 2019

DragonflyWink said: ↑

It's a souvenir spoon, probably from around 1900-10, and the applied enamel piece is almost certainly original despite not being a particularly good fit. Rather than design different spoons requiring the costly step of cutting separate dies, the manufacturers would just add to a generic design and local jewelers would stock them for schools, social organizations, clubs, towns, etc. This may the same spoon that I have with what I believe is a blue Wellesley 'W', but unfortunately it's not handy to check - Shepherd made a great figural graduate holding applied school pennants, but this is not likely to be Shepherd. Might even be Canadian, it was very common technique in their souvenir spoons, for some reason Breadner is coming to mind for the spoon blank, but that's just a thought...

Sorry, that's all I've got, can't help with identification of the 'IC' or 'CI'.

~Cheryl
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Wow -- great information! I remembered that you collect spoons and thought to ask you.

komokwa · Mar 19, 2019

DragonflyWink said: ↑

It's a souvenir spoon, probably from around 1900-10, and the applied enamel piece is almost certainly original despite not being a particularly good fit. Rather than design different spoons requiring the costly step of cutting separate dies, the manufacturers would just add to a generic design and local jewelers would stock them for schools, social organizations, clubs, towns, etc. This may the same spoon that I have with what I believe is a blue Wellesley 'W', but unfortunately it's not handy to check - Shepard made a great figural graduate holding applied school pennants, but this is not likely to be Shepard. Might even be Canadian, it was very common technique in their souvenir spoons, for some reason Breadner is coming to mind for the spoon blank, but that's just a thought...

Sorry, that's all I've got, can't help with identification of the 'IC' or 'CI'.

~Cheryl

Arghhh - edited 'Shepherd' to the correct 'Shepard' (I know better, sinus infection making me stupid and cranky...)
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