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Cuero [Souvenir Spoon]Description
Wendell Manufacturing Company aesthetic movement sterling silver souvenir spoon. The handle is acid etched “Cuero Tex” and the bowl is acid etched with a cowboy roping a longhorn.Context
Souvenir spoons grew out of the birth of leisure tourism in Europe around the mid 1800s. Wealthy Americans on a Grand Tour of Europe brought home these souvenirs marked with the names of cities and some of the famous landmarks they had seen.
Founded by Charles Wendell in 1885, the Wendell Manufacturing Company started out as a manufacturer of silver badges and moved into flatware, with a contract to provide sterling ware to Marshall Field & Company. The flatware line was discontinued in 1900.