These spoons appear to have been custom made in honor of a gold discovery. At the finial we find a large placer gold nugget in a victorious laurel wreath. The bowls are custom repoussed with fine Victorian silverwork. I haven't yet been able to trace the maker (mark is an R and a lion) and they are also marked "sterling 925" which along with the styling probably indicates that they are American or Canadian.
This style of spoon bowl was popular from the 1850's thru the 1890 time period, but this style of handle was most popular in the mid 1880's. Given this time frame, it is most likely to assume that the gold nuggets came from California (or Colorado) since that was the area which was producing gold nuggets of this type at this period of time. (The Alaskan gold fields weren't discovered until the late 1890's). The Nevada gold fields were producing gold ore, but not placer nuggets.
These Berry spoons are 8.4" long and most of the handle is vermeil (gold plate on silver). The spoon was machine produced and then finished by hand.
The placer nuggets are fairly large measuring about
4/10 of an inch length.
The laurel wreath has a long history but was used to coronate a pope as
well
as signify victory
The bowls are hand worked with a nicely designed
fruit and berry display.
The two bowls are slightly different as would be expected.