Heard of spoon lady? Well...

[Nathan W]

This probably makes my 20th spoon in two years . I can't find much on these except well the stamp on back. Found in park woods at long gone homesite . Everyone must have had stews back than. I should post all my spoons and forks/knives in a separate post. I have quite the variety .

 

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[Gare]

Keep it up and you can have a Chili cook off contest

 

[Red-Coat]

Stainless steel wasn’t discovered until 1913 (and in Britain), so any cutlery thus marked will be after that date but it was a while before it saw use in other countries. Those spoons could theoretically have been made between then and 1921, but are much more likely to be post-1949 and probably post-1952.

In 1914, the McKinley Tariff Act was amended, requiring all goods imported to the USA to not only be marked with the country of origin in English, but also accompanied by the words “Made In…” or an equivalent term (although not rigorously enforced until 1921).

There were no imports from Japan between 1941-1945, for obvious reasons, and they didn't resume until the late summer of 1947. From then, the required marking was "Occupied Japan" or "Made in Occupied Japan" until 1949, at which time it was decreed that "Occupied Japan", "Made in Occupied Japan", "Made in Japan" or just "Japan" were all acceptable. That continued until 1952 when occupation ended and the requirement switched back to "Japan" or "Made in Japan".