STERLING SILVER FIGURAL ANIMAL SOUVENIR SPOONS, LOT OF 15, featuring alligators, bears, bison, deer, and fish, including two Howard Sterling Co. demitasse examples with fish handles and engraved lettering to bowl for Maine localities, a Paye & Baker example with handle depicting a fish and net, with shell tip, and highly-detailed embossed scenic decoration to bowl "CATALINA ISLAND, CA.", a similar Paye & Baker salt spoon with embossed decoration to bowl depicting a steamship and lettered "STEAMER / NEW YORK," a Paye & Baker "Teddy Bears" example, having tree-form handle with two bears, one which is holding a brimmed hat in paw, and embossed Niagara Falls decoration to bowl, a Mechanics Sterling Co. sugar scoop with palmetto handle terminating in alligator tip, lettered to bowl "NEW ORLEANS", an Alvin Mfg. demitasse example with embossed decoration to bowl "AUDITORIUM, OCEAN GROVE, NJ", and one Fessenden example with bison-head tip, lettered to bowl for the Pan American Exposition. Together with a sterling baby spoon with embossed rabbit to handle. Sixteen (16) pieces total. Total weight: 7.845 ozt. Late 19th/first half 20th century. 3 3/8" to 5 5/8" L.
Excellent condition overall, some with minor wear.
Provenance: Collection of Jim Lawrence and Denver Smallwood, Chattanooga, TN.

Excellent condition overall, some with minor wear.