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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2017250, member: 111&quot;]Actually, Galt &amp; Bro. produced their George Washington spoon in 1890, the year before the first Daniel Low Salem Witch spoon, and the Galt spoon was popular, but the Witch spoons really set off the souvenir spoon craze.&nbsp; This ad seems to show that they were still a bit ticked in 1904:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]248373[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both Salem Witch spoons and other pieces (they offered all sorts of Witch items like pins, match safes, letter openers, etc,) sold well for quite a few years - this ad is from 1908:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]248374[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My Mom&#039;s orange spoons in both designs, the original by Durgin on the left, to the the right of the second design by Gorham, is a witch motif spoon by German firm Cristoph Widmann (she and her sister were both born on Halloween, two years apart):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]248376[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As a collector of Viking-motif spoons, I&#039;m a fan of Gorham&#039;s well-done Leif Ericson spoon, shown in this 1891 ad (I have the teaspoon with the ship in the bowl, but it&#039;s packed away):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]248375[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for further hijacking, Book - and I also think it would be a lovely gift...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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