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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4260375, member: 111&quot;]It may not have been gilt, would have been an option available to the retailers from the manufacturer.&nbsp; By the early 20th century, the souvenir spoon &#039;craze&#039; was cooling a bit, many of the designs simplified - those little enamel plaques were produced for all sorts of stuff, and your spoon was sold with various school emblems.</p><p><br /></p><p>Souvenir spoons often differed from regular spoon manufacture in that the bowls and stems could be die-struck separately, then soldered together in various combinations - I&#039;ve seen that Fort Dearborn bowl on a number of different spoons.&nbsp; I&#039;ve collected Chicago spoons for a long time, usually Columbian Exposition souvenirs - I have a book on the fair spoons, may be around here somewhere, can&#039;t recall if yours is included, but suspect not, Watson&#039;s Mechanics division should date a bit later than 1893, around 1896, and the &#039;Field Columbian Museum&#039; didn&#039;t open until 1894.</p><p><br /></p><p>Believe the Breck&#039;s spoons were a premium or giveaway from the bulb company, but not much of an area of interest for me, so my memory may be faulty...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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