NAVAJO INDIAN SWASTIKA NAVAJO STYLE STERLING SILVER BABY SOUVENIR SPOON

Description

Please consider this classic example of spoon styled as earliest example of a Navajo silver tourist spoon (Circa 1910) known as Fred Harvey Era and is made to appear as old Indian hand crafted spoon made by Indian silversmiths. It is made to appear as handmade (hand wrought) by Navajo Indian and further made into a baby spoon. On the back it is featuring image of full figure standing Indian warrior or chief holding a spear and Navajo style decorations down the handle and extending to the front. In the bowl it features punched decorations around, inside a swastika (good luck sign of Indians) on top, below two crossed arrows and a bow. Swastika was good luck Indian symbol and also referred as wheeling logs.
Nothing to do with later swastika associated with the German Nazis.
It is made to look like early punched Navajo design and hand hammered, cut, chiseled and filed condition Typically these types of spoons were made as souvenirs from states such as New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Texas or California. Original Indian silversmiths of this time period, around 1900, used silver ingots, American or Mexican silver coins .900 pure silver, but this one is marked STERLING. Measures 3” inches (75 mm) in length and in excellent used and vintage condition. Shipping on multiple purchases are gladly combined. Please see other, some rare, collector spoons I'm currently listing.