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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10219215, member: 111&quot;]Lots of different subjects on souvenir spoons, my first, acquired 45+ years ago, has a very nice acid-etched view of Joliet Penitentiary.&nbsp; The engraver had little skill, would guess an amateur, my first thought was a silver mine, both silver and gold mining was a popular subject, coal mining a possibility, or perhaps even a sawmill - without a location, would be difficult to pin it down.</p><p><br /></p><p>You don&#039;t show the maker&#039;s mark and the handle is fuzzy for these old eyes, but if it&#039;s an A.F. Towle &amp; Son mark and the handle is inset with filigree work, then it would be a Dirksen piece, A.F. Towle was a common source of their blanks...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/200043-RL0004684/Dirksen-Silver-Filigree-Co-Sterling-Silver" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/200043-RL0004684/Dirksen-Silver-Filigree-Co-Sterling-Silver" rel="nofollow">https://www.rubylane.com/item/200043-RL0004684/Dirksen-Silver-Filigree-Co-Sterling-Silver</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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