Description:
Silver souvenir spoon with a downturned rounded-end handle and pointed oval bowl, which is stamped with a scene of the "Old Indian House" in Deerfield, Massachusetts, on the interior of the bowl and with the words, "OLD DEERFIELD/1704" on the handle. The Old Indian house, which is also known as the Ensign John Sheldon House, withstood the Indian attack of 1704. The spoon has the A. F. Towle & Son mark and "STERLING" in rectangle on the reverse of the handle. Souvenir means "to remember." A common practice of travelers is to bring home physical reminders of their ephermeral adventures,and those souvenirs took on a variety of forms. Visitors to Deerfield often went home with stereoviews, booklets, and postcards, and souvenir plates, pictorial china, and silver spoons.
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