Yukon souvenir spoon

Another gift from Grandma: A souvenir of the Yukon, with a small gold nugget soldered to the handle. The marks on this are "Sterling" a lion, an "R", and 925. Of course the sterling mark and 925 are self-explanatory, but what company and year are indicated by the lion and R?

 

Did anyone test the nugget??

 

The marking is from Canada - Roden Bros.

 

Roden Bros Sterling Mark (Canada)
https://www.justinteeantiques.com/news-info/canadian-silversmiths-of-the-20th-century/

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/401860973076

 

Not to my knowledge. I'd guess that gold was cheap (relatively) when it was made, so why fake it?

 

But wouldn't you want to know it's value NOW????

 

gold....was never cheap...!

 

nuggets vary in gold content..

 

Yes, I would. It passed $2,000 an ounce today!

 

According to what I could find online, a $5.00 gold half eagle weighed 8.3 grams (.27 troy oz). So, yeah, not cheap, but not exorbitant, and readily available. Not too expensive for a use like this, I don't think.

 

& the avg wage for that year was...........

 

My mom picked up one when we went to Alaska in the early 60's. She collected spoons from where ever we traveled. It must have been cheap because we did not have much money back then. We traveled the entire Pan America highway in a VW bug and a Sears and Roebuck tent. She collected spoons the whole way. I was 5 years old. Haven't seen the spoon in a few years.

 

My grandmother collected them, more for the silver content than as memorabilia. She gave them to me when I was a child. I still have them all, and as far as I can tell, they all are before 1920. I haven't had much luck finding an up-to-date guide for souvenir spoons, though, so I don't really know if my collection contains any hidden gems or not.