Thoughts on this tiny, Hand made? spoon

Happy Sunday everyone,

All i can tell you about this little spoon is that i found it metal detecting the other day. It is 3" long and appears to be hand made. Tested as silver plated. With what looks like a rough/ uncut sapphire in the center.looks pretty old but you never know.
Thanks in advance for any and all input.
Mikey

 

The top of the handle almost resembles to me a Flamenco dancer with a fan behind/over her head.

--- Susan

 

Gee, just realized the shape of the bowl is similar to cocaine or peyote spoons! At first thought a salt spoon, but the bowl of a salt though small is still of a conventional spoon shape. Here are some cocaine spoons with gem stones.
http://spoonplanet.com/stonecoke.html

With the gemstone on the handle, here is the index to gemstone spoons on the SpoonPlanet website.
http://spoonplanet.com/gemindex.html

--- Susan

 

I was thinking more Egyptian looking. here are a couple closeups of the top.

 

Peacock? I was thinking India - and drugs.

Hi Mikey!! Good to see you back.

 

Thanks Susan,
Always good to see you.

 

Looks to me, as already suggested, like an Indian coke spoon pendant, circa 1980s...

~Cheryl

 

Seeing Bake and I both thought drugs, just where did you dig it up? Were you hmmmm.. day *tripping* up at Woodstock?

--- Susan

 

And thank you Susan (Ladybranch) Awesome site.

 

Not Woodstock but good guess. Actually was at the Sacramento old rail yard.

 

Some '70s-'80s ads from my files:








~Cheryl

 

Hi, Mike(y)!

 

Hi Fig (tree3)!!

 

Oh, I remember those Ivory Snow sets......not that I ever touched or used one..........when my wife DJ'd at those chi-chi WEST Hampton parties they cluttered up every coffee table on toilet tank. I always thought they were a waste of good ivory - a small glass bottle with a built in folding spoon...........never mind..............

 

Hi,
I have one of those snow shovels around here somewhere. I thought it was just a miniature but makes common sense that it was for cocaine. A lot of people had grown a pinky fingernail long enough to scoop up some.
greg

 

It was a popular shape for novelty salt spoons too, both shovel and spade shape bowls, Mom has several in her collection...

~Cheryl

 

reminds me it's time to trim my nails haha.

 

My pinkie nails are plenty long, but then so are the rest of them. Never did any coke though. The stone in the spoon, btw, is probably sodalite.

 

sodalite. Could be. Thanks.