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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4514874, member: 111&quot;]Love the butterfly - I actually had one like this on my watch list a couple of years ago, but went for more than I was willing to give.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost certainly German, and I took a while to respond because I&#039;ve never seen one marked &#039;STERLING&#039; or with that mark - they are typically marked &#039;800 DÉPOSÉ&#039;.&nbsp; They&#039;re found with several different finials and bowls, and as souvenirs of a wide variety of places, but almost always share the same stem, which, for some reason always has green enamel - the plique-à-jour has a somewhat matte surface, unusual in spoons, but seems a bit more common in jewelry (shame about the damage, but the butterfly looks good).&nbsp; Sent me off in a fruitless search to find the owner of that &#039;lyre&#039; mark, which seems familiar to me too, some of the German jewelry manufacturers made souvenir spoons as well, so maybe one of those, just don&#039;t know...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my &#039;Milano&#039; spoon by the same maker, with an enamel palette-shape finial and a full plique-à-jour bowl:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]397017[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]397018[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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