Souvenir spoon: Banff, Alberta
Probably Canada
1890-1915
Measurements
4-1/8 in x 1 in x 1/2 in
Materials
Gold-washed silver and enamel
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.1082
Inscription
“Banff / Alta”
“STERLING” is on the back of the flag
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The gold-washed spoon features a brightly enameled image of the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom. The spoon bowl says Banff, Al[ber]ta, of Canada. Although a separate country, Canada acknowledges the British Royal Family as their own. Banff is a town in the Canadian Rockies.
Aside from the gold bowl, the spoon has a twisted handle that appears to have been created by twisting the metal rather than die-stamping it in that shape.
