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Silver Spoon, Marked Sitko

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:45 pm
by Granmaa
I don't know where this spoon is from, but it has a South American look to it.
Simply engraved Sitko. Any ideas?

Miles

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Re: Silver Spoon, Marked Sitko

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:17 pm
by silverly
This article from the book on google Harriman Alaska expedition, Volume 1 By Edward Henry Harriman, Washington academy of sciences describes Sitko as the original name for Sitka: http://books.google.com/books?id=O0EJAQ ... 22&f=false

Re: Silver Spoon, Marked Sitko

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:08 pm
by dragonflywink
This spoon should be moved to the Native American forum. It's a late 19th-early 20th century silver Tlingit spoon intended for the souvenir market, the craftsmanship and that engraved script "Sitka" are typical of spoons from the shop of Rudolph Walton. Please feel free to send it my way if you tire of it. ;-)

~Cheryl

Link to a Walton spoon:

http://cdm1.library.uaf.edu/cdm/singlei ... id/1/rec/2

1895 excerpt from a Presbyterian missionary publication:

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1905 excerpt from an article on a trip to Alaska:

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Re: Silver Spoon, Marked Sitko

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:09 am
by Granmaa
Wow! My first Native American spoon. Thank you both very much for your replies.

Miles