✅ SOLVED Found at yard sale what is it?????

[hardesje]

Hello! I recently picked something up at a yard sale. Thought they were really cool but can’t find what they are and if they are worth anything…I placed a dime in the picture for size reference. All say sterling on back but nothing else. PLEASE HELP!

 

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[Blackfoot58]

I’m probably way off base, but at first sight I thought of Car Badges (my term). Many European travelers had such items on their (fancy) touring cars. Similar to the decals put on luggage; they showed ones worldliness and sophistication. Great conversation starters around the men’s clubs and manors. But again, I’m just playing a hunch. Oh, I really like them and in my opinion they would have great intrinsic value, if they are not reproductions. 👍🏼

 

[Retired Sarge]

Reminds me of the collector spoons concept. When we lived in Europe (71-75, 82-85, 88-92) people collected spoons, coat of arms (Tourist pieces), and Volks Marching medals.

Some of the coat of arms were curved, so that they could be attached to your walking stick. There were friends of mine that had several sticks as they would fill one up pretty quick. Other people stuck them to a tapestry.

 

[DownEast_Detecting]

They look like the top of those collectible spoons. Probably in the same line of souvenirs

 

[DownEast_Detecting]

Reminds me of the collector spoons concept. When we lived in Europe (71-75, 82-85, 88-92) people collected spoons, coat of arms (Tourist pieces), and Volks Marching medals.

You beat me by like 30 seconds. Lol

 

[Blackfoot58]

Reminds me of the collector spoons concept. When we lived in Europe (71-75, 82-85, 88-92) people collected spoons, coat of arms (Tourist pieces), and Volks Marching medals.

Some of the coat of arms were curved, so that they could be attached to your walking stick. There were friends of mine that had several sticks as they would fill one up pretty quick. Other people stuck them to a tapestry.

Makes sense. They are a little too small for a car badge. 👍🏼

 

[Red-Coat]

Nice little collection. They all have pretty much the same surround as on this souvenir spoon for Rheinfall in Switzerland, It's silver plate but I would guess the same maker or designer, specializing in souvenir-ware.

Perhaps that's someone's personal collection, but although it represents a disparate set of places they all have something in common. They're popular sequential ports for Mediterranean/Aegean tourist cruises. I would think these might have been sold on board a cruise ship as memorabilia of the places visited.

 

[hardesje]

They look like the top of those collectible spoons. Probably in the same line of souvenirs
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Looked at these on line. Doesn’t appear to be cut from a spoon… no marks on bottom, but definitely resembles it!

 

[Red-Coat]

Looked at these on line. Doesn’t appear to be cut from a spoon… no marks on bottom, but definitely resembles it!

Yes... I don't believe them to have been cut from spoons, and the backs are not consistent with spoon handles. Emblems like this are used on a wide variety of souvenir-ware.... to affix on walking sticks, on rucksacks, as bracelet charms, lapel pins or whatever. Yours show no signs of having had loops or other attachment devices and perhaps were only produced as standalone souvenir badge emblems.

Note the use of the Italian names for Naples and Genoa (Napoli and Genova respectively) but not the Greek name for Rhodes (Rodos). What does it say underneath the word 'Rhodes'? Usually in Greek it would be ΔΗΜΟΣ ΡΟΔΟΥ (Municipality of Rhodes) but that's not what it looks like.

 

[Mackaydon]

Red-Coat, if it helps........the Rhodes object shows the Mandraki Harbor entrance featuring the stag Elafos statue and the Angros Nikolaos Fortress/Lighthouse.
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[GlowingArtist]

Could they somehow be molds for the spoon handles?

 

[Red-Coat]

Could they somehow be molds for the spoon handles?

They're enamelled and obviously intended for 'display'. Also, they're marked as Sterling silver.

 

[ARC]

Spoon medallions.
OR... some sort of unfinished pins / brooch / charm thinga-ma-bob's

 

[dieselfool]

OR... some sort of unfinished pins / brooch / charm thinga-ma-bob's

Souvenirs sold in gift shops and the like.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Somebody traveled Europe and picked up souveniers at each city. I bought country patches (I'm cheap).

 

[Retired Sarge]

Somebody traveled Europe and picked up souveniers at each city. I bought country patches (I'm cheap).

I brought back beer steins, mugs, glasses, boots and ash trays from the Gasthaus's I frequented in high school, then when later stationed in Europe myself.