Antique Spoon?

[annalee2003]

Hi Everyone!

While on a 2 week vacation on the coast of Northern California, my husband and Ifound this antique-looking spoon.
We were walking along a beach and found it washed ashore buried halfway into the sand.
We decided to keep it, thinking it'd make an interesting and unique souviner from our trip.

It's obviously a bit worn down from being tossed around in the ocean.

On the back of the spoon I noticed it said "Paramount Plate" .. I tried to Google the name for more info and idn't really come up with much. There are another set of words next to that which I haven't been able to make out.

So, I was wondering if anyone had any information on this thing?

Here are a few photos:






Thanks so much!

[lewmel]

From what I can tell it is the same as
Ebay item 280524330091
Vtg Oneida Paramount Silverplate 2 Teaspoons Spoon 1933

[sapphire]

I'm thinking the 'Paramount' is throwing us off. I started looking for this pattern name and the same example keeps coming up. This is the Paramount pattern (Silverplate, 1933)

[annalee2003]

Found a useful website: http://www.silvercollecting.com/patternguides/communityplatepatterns.html

Gives some information on the Oneida company, and some of their "Community" flateware designs. Some of the links on the site don't seem to work though.  

1920's & 1930's looks like the years it was produced ... Not as old as I had hoped the spoon to be (always wishing to find something on the beach from the 1800's   ), but not such a bad find either!

That's as far as I got in my search ... Trying to find more info beyond "Oneida" and "Community" just gave me a big headache. 

[ironlord1963]

Paramount Plate was a line of Hotel Flatware, I Have a couple of these myself.  The Pattern is called Dominion made in 1915, Comes with the markings Puritan Plate, Paramount Plate or Rex Plate.  Basicially you have Oneida buying up Silverplate companies, This was during the time when Oneida and International was both buying up as many companies as possible.  Anyway what you have is a line that was made by oneida for Hotels and Restraunts.  These are very common and can be found everywhere.  Most Flatware you can pick up for under $1.00, these are in good to great condition.