Souvenir spoon: Vienna

1890-1910

Measurements

4-1/2 in x 1 in x 1/2 in

Materials

Gold-washed and enameled silver

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1108

Inscription

“WIEN” is written across the front of the handle.

Provenance

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

Comments

The gilded spoon with a plain bowl and ornate handle has "WIEN", the Austrian name for Vienna, written across a white panel with delicate red scrolls.  Above the panel is a double-headed eagle with outswept wings and a red-highlighted shield on its breast.  The symbol has long been associated with the Holy Roman Empire, a medieval precursor to the Habsburgs and the Austrian Empire of the 19th century.  (Austria-Hungary fell in 1918.)

The spoon has no maker's marks.