Germany has been known as a producer of beautiful silver objects for a very long time. These silver souvenir spoons pay tribute to some of its beautiful cities.
The genesis of the American souvenir spoon movement is based upon souvenir spoons which were created in Germany. A whole exhibit is devoted to some of these spoons and how they influenced Daniel Low, the jeweler, who is credited with starting the souvenir spoon movement in the United States. A link to this page is provided at the bottom of this exhibit.
German souvenir spoons are usually made with "800" silver rather than the better quality "925" (sterling) silver which is used in much of the rest of the world. Some German manufacturers also exported souvenir spoons to other countries in South America and elsewhere.
Other examples of German made spoons are also shown in different exhibits in this museum. Most of the spoons shown on this page have enameled picture bowls, but the scanner does a very poor job of reproducing them, so at this time I am only showing the finials.
Berlin
Bremen--key
to the
city
Eisenach,
Germany
Frankfurt
Hannover
Heidelberg
Koln (Cologne)
Munich
note: Three dimensional views of this figure are shown in several other exhibits.
Munchen
Rothenburg
reclining
nude on dog shaped bench
One day I was having a hard time finding anything worthwhile when I stumbled across these two German spoons with nice enameled and engraved finials, but I have no idea what they commemorated. Each of the backs of the finials are engraved with the date of September 1912. Both are engraved with the same date, but to different people.
Kaiser
Wilhelm 11
Of course I realize that Budapest is not part of Germany, but I do not have any other spoons from Budapest and this spoon was made in Germany
Wien
Pretty dual enameled finials with Stefanskirche in the bowl
Several other exhibits also contain spoons from Germany
The "In the Beginning" exhibit also shows a number of spoons from Germany
which led to the creation of the infamous Salem Witch spoon, if you haven't
visited that page yet,
click here
Click to visit the Berlin Air Lift Commemorative Spoon