She persuaded me to put down the boring T-shirt and follow her over to a table full of her “favorite, special collector’s items.” There I found my first souvenir spoon.

Collecting souvenir spoons has been a popular hobby for many Americans since the late 1800s when this European fad swept ... A year or so later the most famous collector’s spoon was designed, ...

Spoon With Some Collectors. ... Most souvenir spoons are die stamped from silver, but some of the early Gorham spoons were cast from molten silver. Back then, they were worth $3 or so; ...

Souvenir spoons – collector’s item or landfill. It seems a curious state of affairs that a teaspoon could come to represent a travel destination.

The National Souvenir Spoon Collectors Guild Convention has come to Davenport to share their love of decorative cutlery with a competition and a banquet. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...

Floral art always stays in style. Find a new way to create a beautiful flower display when you upcycle a thrifted tea spoon ...

In the United States, souvenir-spoon-collecting dates back to the mid-1800s (the first American souvenir spoon, produced in the late 1800s, was outfitted with George Washington’s profile).

Q My father got this spoon from a woman from Belgium. It was in her family for many years, then my parents owned it, and now it is mine. There is a name engraved on the back of the bowl and 800 ...

Back in the 1980s, Cammie Pohl's great-grandmother gifted her three boxes of souvenir spoons. Now, Pohl estimates she has more than 8,500.

QWe have a set of sterling spoons showing Midwestern states. Each is stamped with the maker; some are names, some symbols. There are 18, still in their presentation case. How do we learn value and ...

Q — I own a sterling silver demitasse spoon that has ‘Allentown, PA’ inscribed on the bowl and a peanut on the end of a vine-covered handle. The back is marked ‘R.W. & … ...

Collecting souvenir spoons has been a popular hobby for many Americans since the late 1800s when this European fad swept ... A year or so later the most famous collector’s spoon was designed, ...