Gorham Marks, Cannot find pattern! anyone know?

[liquid214]

Hello this is a spoon I bought at a thrift shop just becasue i had not seen this pattern before. Does anyone have any ideas? It was at some point tested for siver and it tested positive (i hate when people do this) It is marked with Gorham marks as well as sta.juliana which i did a web search on and it turns out to be a very old church in spain which is no help to me :) Any help idetifying would be great! Thank you!!


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[admin]

Hi,
Might be part of the "Treasure of the Sierra Madre". It has the look of a souvenir spoon and solely because of the pick, shovel & cactus motif I did a search for a Santa Juliana mine in California, Arizona & New Mexico, but came up empty. Did find one in the Sierra Madre of Chihuahua, Mexico and it turns out that the mine owners were New York based, at least in 1897. Just a guess, but suspect they may have commissioned Gorham to make the spoons for them.

Regards, Tom
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[liquid214]

Thank you so much for the very insightful reply!
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