Souvenir spoon: Notre Dame

1890-1910

Measurements

4-5/8 in x 1 in x 5/8 in

Materials

Silver with a gold-washed bowl

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1136

Inscription

“NOTRE DAME” is below the image of it in the bowl.

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

The spoon bowl shows the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, built 1163-1260, although changes and repairs continued in later centuries.  The spiral handle terminates in a fleur-de-lis.  The same die was used for the front and back of the handle.

The spoon has no maker marks.