Crafts, content strategy, flatware, and dogs. Not necessarily in that order.
I, for one, welcome our new Russian overlords…with this fake gold spoon from Moscow!
There are literally millions of these gold tone souvenir spoons out there. In Soviet Russia, they pay YOU to take the spoon.
The statue at the top is (I think) Yuri Dolgoruky, the founder of Moscow, and the one in the bowl might be Alexander Pushkin. And if so, the spoon is likely haunted by Pushkin himself.
I picked these spoons up for $10 in an antique store in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood about 15 years ago. I was told they were Russian, but it turns it they’re guilloche enamel spoons made by Egon Lauridsen of Denmark.
Not sure what era they’re from, but seems like other people’s best guesses place them in the 1940-1960 range. While Russian spoons are usually haunted, Danish spoons go through a fairly rigorous exorcism process before they are sold on the open market, so they’re probably not haunted.
Most of my grandmother’s family on my dad’s side was from Boston (Roxbury) and nearby cities in Massachusetts. So, here’s a Boston spoon, next to a tasty Boston Sidecar (which I have never made before and it was delicious!).
The spoon was made around 1900 by George Homer of Boston, Massachusetts. In fact, as far as I’ve been able to tell, George Homer ONLY made souvenir spoons. It’s about 4″ long, and features the State House building in the bowl and a can of baked beans near the tip of the handle.
In my expert opinion, this spoon is not haunted.