Featured Sterling souvenir or baby spoon?

How did you find my father's baby spoon (the correct initials)?

Not that I know much about old spoons but it looks original to me.

 

I'm with wiscbirddog, looks original to me too Maybe the CI is an organization/group that FEB belonged to?

 

My best guess is that it's for/from a college that starts with an "I". (I don't think it's Ithaca, since their school color isn't RED, but I think it belongs to some other college whose color IS red!)

 

lol, know that feeling well
SBSVC might be on the right track for a school/college

 

Ooooo - how about IONA COLLEGE in NY?

 

I'm going to bed but came across this stick pin with an IC pin attached - something to look at in the morning
https://www.etsy.com/listing/632322573/very-rare-and-fantastic-1880s-pi-beta

 

if its not original the enamel is very unlikely to be set in sterling? maybe try running a magnet or something over the CI bit. Just a guess.

 

Iona College uses red and white these days. That could also be Chicago Illinois. Or University of Illinois. Or....

 

You could ask them at spoon planet

 

Doesn't look safe to give to a baby, so I agree some kind of souvenir spoon.

 

The enameled letters on the spoon look familiar -- now I'll be thinking about it ... hoping the memory comes to the surface.

About whether the enameled portion is original to the spoon or not, I wonder whether @DragonflyWink has any thoughts on that?

 

It's a souvenir spoon, probably from around 1900-10, and the applied enamel piece is almost certainly original despite not being a particularly good fit. Rather than design different spoons requiring the costly step of cutting separate dies, the manufacturers would just add to a generic design and local jewelers would stock them for schools, social organizations, clubs, towns, etc. This may the same spoon that I have with what I believe is a blue Wellesley 'W', but unfortunately it's not handy to check - Shepard made a great figural graduate holding applied school pennants, but this is not likely to be Shepard. Might even be Canadian, it was very common technique in their souvenir spoons, for some reason Breadner is coming to mind for the spoon blank, but that's just a thought...

Sorry, that's all I've got, can't help with identification of the 'IC' or 'CI'.

~Cheryl


Arghhh - edited 'Shepherd' to the correct 'Shepard' (I know better, sinus infection making me stupid and cranky...)