Interesting spoon found in my yard

[djabend]

I have come to the conclusion that no matter how hard I try I will never get everything in my yard.
OK, that's find with me

Here is a spoon I found today, here is some info on the person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Wilson_(actress)




Just the handle detail



and a close up of the head



Some bottles i found yesterday at the cellar hole next door, not sure how old



and some clad and a 1916 wheat (guess that's my oldest wheat now, shame its so beat up )



HH,
Donny

 

[alpha105]

lois wilson......hrmmmmm.....

 

[jasonbo]

http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/6232/moviestars.html

Movie star spoons

guess it would be expected that we find movie stars on spoons. Normally I do not have much interest in silver plated spoons, but this series of movie star spoons of the 1920's were only created in this manner. I am told that there is another set of movie star spoons in sterling silver, but I have never seen any of these spoons. One of the surfers of this site writes: "they (12) were produced by Oneida for a Hearst Newspaper campaign through Photoplay Magazine in 1925. The artist was Louise K. Lants."

This is entirely plausible, because Marion Davies (a less than exciting movie star) was the mistress of William Randall Hearst, the well known publisher. Davies spoons are much more common than any of the others. You can see Hearst Castle spoons in the "Modern Souvenir Traps" exhibit from the index page.

At the time, these spoons would have been very inexpensive and even today they are readily available for a nominal price. I have seen them priced anywhere from $2 - $25 each. All I can suggest is caveat emptor.

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

The spoon was probably a set made for this: She was chosen by Paramount Pictures to represent the motion picture industry at the British Empire Exposition of 1924. her profile appears to be from the 20's

 

[jraven]

Nice spoon , bottles and coins... Keep em coming.