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RARE TRUE SKYLINE WAIKIKI HAWAII HONOLULU STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR SPOON
$ 47.51
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It dates back to early years of 1900, at that time the travel to Hawaii was reserved for wealthy travelers only, this was time before advent of airplane travel. This is a gorgeous vintage sterling silver souvenir spoon from Honolulu Hawaii. It features on the front of handle extremely detailed images of Waikiki skyline. Waikiki Beach which was the place where King Kamehameha spent his summers. In the bowl it has embossed image of building, the writing is GAVERNMENT BUILDING, HONOLULU, H.T. (Hawaiian Territory). On the back more extremely detailed images: building scene of GAVERNMENT BUILDING, below KAMEHAMEHA STATUE, then NATIVE GRASS HUT and a flower with roots, I think it is Toro fruit. Condition of the spoon is excellent, measures 5 5/8 inch long (140 mm) and Measures 5-5/8 inch long (142 mm). On the back is marked STERLING and makers markings of P & B within embossed hearts for PAYE and BAKER MFG. CO. Shipping on multiple purchases are gladly combined. Please see other, some rare, collector spoons I'm currently listing.What is a skyline?
The first skyline spoon design, on the tag end of the Art Nouveau era, was patented in 1901 and by 1913 designs were beginning to change under the influence of Art Deco and no more new true skylines were introduced. A true skyline should be viewed horizontally (the exception being the three stacked skylines of Chicago, New York and Boston) which eliminates monuments such as the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument. There are city skylines, building skylines, riverscape skylines, bridge skylines and natural skylines (mountains and such). Partial skylines are when less than half the handle shows a skyline. I only know of only one enclosed skyline that Ouida Verizzo, author of American Skyline Souvenir Spoons, considers a true and that's an Atlantic City spoon. The other pointed handled spoons with a band of silver enclosing the cutouts around a few buildings, a mountain or a scene near the tip of the handle are not true skylines. Samuylow, Henrieta Jacobson, and Yetta Zwerling.