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Message:: [QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 344097, member: 111"]This is a spoon from my collection, when acquired around 2005, I contacted a dealer who specialized in Gorham cast souvenir spoons, he happened to be working with another dealer and author, and was doing the photographs for a book on Gorham spoons.  Turned out that the only other known example of this spoon was in the Gorham Collection at the Rhode Island School of Design, they had no idea of its origin, nor did it appear in the Gorham archives - my spoon was sent, heavily insured, for photography.  I finally tracked down its story a few years later, and gave the information to the author in 2012 when he offered to buy it through the other dealer, he still didn't have one when he last tried to buy mine a couple of years later - the book was finally published last year, so unless he finally found one, the spoon pictured in the book is mine. Designed by Syracuse jeweler E.B. McClelland for the Alpha Phi sorority at Syracuse University sometime between 1892 and 1895, made to order at a cost of $2.00, was still available as late as 1899... Coffee spoon (demitasse):[ATTACH=full]116057[/ATTACH] 1895 illustration of the spoon:[ATTACH=full]116058[/ATTACH] 1898 advertisement:[ATTACH=full]116059[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]