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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 542914, member: 111"]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...</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, that's all I've got, can't help with identification of the 'IC' or 'CI'.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Arghhh - edited 'Shepherd' to the correct 'Shepard' (I know better, sinus infection making me stupid and cranky...)</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 542914, member: 111"]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 [COLOR=#ff0000]Arghhh - edited 'Shepherd' to the correct 'Shepard' (I know better, sinus infection making me stupid and cranky...)[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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