Souvenir spoon: Cripple Creek, Colorado
Northeastern United States
1895-1910
Measurements
5-7/8 in x 1-1/4 in x 3/4 in
Materials
Silver, gold-wash bowl
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.1061
Inscription
“PORTLAND MINE / CRIPPLE CREEK” are cast into the bowl along the top and bottom of the image.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
Incorporated in 1894, the Portland Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, was one of the most productive gold mines of the late 1890s and 1900s. The souvenir spoon shows a picture of the mine in the bowl. The undecorated cylindrical handle ends in two crossed pick axes with a lump of gold ore between their handles.
The spoon has no maker marks.
