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Manhasset Posts: 10 Registered: Jul 2005	posted 07-20-2005 02:50 PM Can you please tell me more about this spoon? I have found it, I think, in "Tiffany Silver" by Carpenter (p.121) and, although I know it is the seal of the City of New York, I would like to know what this shape of spoon might have been used for. IP: Logged
Silver Lyon Posts: 363 Registered: Oct 2004	posted 07-20-2005 03:24 PM Am I wrong, or doesn't the Seal of the City of New York feature tuns (barrels) rather than bales (of cotton?)? And the European normally carry a bag of money? IP: Logged
William Hood Posts: 271 Registered: Apr 2000	posted 07-20-2005 05:52 PM This is a bon bon spoon. In the future, when posting pictures, please include dimensions. IP: Logged
Manhasset Posts: 10 Registered: Jul 2005	posted 07-20-2005 06:13 PM Sorry! 5" Long. Is it c.1910 as Carpenter suggests, or much more modern? IP: Logged
salmoned Posts: 336 Registered: Jan 2005	posted 07-20-2005 07:21 PM SL, I'd bet Tiffany used an altered design to avoid paying licensing fees to those New Amsterdam Yankees! If I see it correctly, that particular 'M' mark was used 1873 to 1891 according to the 925-1000 website. 1910 would have been marked with a script 'M'. [This message has been edited by salmoned (edited 07-20-2005).] IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 07-20-2005 10:51 PM THE SEAL OF NEW YORK CITY The NYC City Seal The above web sites provide the interesting background for the New York City seal. IP: Logged
Manhasset Posts: 10 Registered: Jul 2005	posted 07-22-2005 01:42 PM Thank you all for your help. IP: Logged
Sgt Silver Posts: 41 Registered: May 99	posted 03-01-2009 05:13 PM For those interested in the evolution of the New York City Seal, here is a link to the history. The West Side Highway fell down in the mid-1970s. It had, at intervals, five city Seals, which were repeated. In the mid-1980s the City sold some of them to the public. [This message has been edited by Sgt Silver (edited 03-01-2009).] IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 03-02-2009 01:34 PM Thanks to Sgt Silver for the NYC seal history. Sgt Silver was going to post a rather large scanned PDF version of the NYC seal info. Sgt Silver contacted me about the best way to so such a post.... I converted the PDF scanned image via OCR to text and added the images and put it all into the linked WEB page (HISTORY OF THE CAST IRON NYC SEALS FROM THE WEST SIDE HIGHWAY). Hopefully this loads faster and is easier to read. New Yorkers who were around when the West Side Highway was still elevated, may remember the seals. Here are two images of the actual seals: IP: Logged

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