Sterling Silver Spoon, Black Man Eating Watermelon, Carter Bldg, Houston Tex
Sterling Silver Spoon, Black Man Eating Watermelon, Carter Bldg, Houston Tex
$189.00
An antique silver spoon. Handle design shows a black man eating watermelon with corn stalks and cotton plants down the handle. The bowl shows an engraved building with the caption "Carter Bldg, Houston, Tex."
When built in 1910 it was the tallest building in Texas, but was nicknamed "Carter's Folly" because the public feared such a tall building was unsafe. The back of the handle is marked Sterling with the SSMC mark, a logo of the Saart Bros. Company.
