Since many people have asked about them, today I’m presenting you with one of the haunted spoons from my collection. Continue reading “Day 24 – The 1901 Pan Am Exposition Spoon”
Day 24 – The 1901 Pan Am Exposition Spoon
Day 23 – The Lewis and Clark Portland, Oregon Spoon
On January 23, 1806, exactly 210 years ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were camped out at Fort Clatsop along the Pacific Coast, close to what would eventually become Pacific Beach, Oregon. According to their journals, they were spending a lot of time documenting plants. Continue reading “Day 23 – The Lewis and Clark Portland, Oregon Spoon”
Day 22 – The Stockholm Palace Spoon
On this day, January 22, in 1849, the Swedish playwright (and novelist, painter, and poet), August Strindberg, was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
One of Strindberg’s other creative pursuits was photography and judging from the number of self-portraits he took, it’s not hard to think that he may have been the first person to perfect the art of the selfie.
To celebrate the anniversary of Strindberg’s birth, here’s an enameled gold-tone souvenir spoon from Stockholm, Sweden. The building painted in the bowl is the “Stockholm Slottett” (Stockholm Palace) and the Stockholm city hall is shown at the top.
For a more amusing (and entirely fictional) look at August Strindberg, check out the animated web series, Strindberg &Helium.