Good spoons. Souvenir spoons have largely gone out of fashion, but old silver ones still enjoy a healthy collector market.
The Dutch spoon is indeed .833 silver (833 parts per 1,000), which was demoted to the second standard in the Netherlands when sterling (.925) began to replace it. The marks are a lion passant and Minerva’s helmeted head followed by what should be a date letter. Difficult to read the date letter, but it looks like it might be a lower case ‘k’ for 1970:
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The maker mark is for A. Landmeter of Schoonhoven, in the style used between 1957-1994:
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The other spoon is Canadian. The maker mark ‘BM Co’ is for the Breadner Manufacturing Company, founded in Ottawa, Ontario c.1900 and moved to Hull, Quebec in 1956. They initially specialised in souvenir jewellery for the tourist trade plus badges and emblems but also made a limited range of souvenir spoons using dies acquired from a bankrupted Montreal company. Difficult to date, except that the crown surmounting the shield is the Tudor crown, used between 1902-1953. During WWII, production was largely turned over to military insignia and they resumed manufacture of jewellery and an expanded range of souvenir spoons from their own dies at the end of the war. My guess would be that the spoon is from between late 1945 to early 1953.
