You can hardly name a category of goods these days that doesn't have a collectible aspect. From fishing tackle to fire engines, syringes to cigar labels, there is somebody out there with a related ...

Cammie Pohl is the owner and curator of the Mississippi Spoon Gallery in Davenport, Iowa. She recently broke the Guiness Book ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Have you ever been to a gift shop and wondered who buys the souvenir spoons? Wonder no more — the National Souvenir Spoon Collectors Guild Convention has come to Davenport to share ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Editor's note: Click/tap here to see an update on this story. A Davenport woman wants to take her collection to the next level, attempting to earn the World Record title holder for ...

I have 38 spoons. Thirty-eight ridiculously useless spoons. You know, those tiny ornate souvenirs that can be found in touristy gift shops worldwide, collecting dust next to the novelty shot glasses, ...

Tiny spoons lead to big collections. That’s the lesson in last week’s Treasure Hunt column. When I profiled Charlotte Peterson and her collection of 65 souvenir spoons, I knew I would hear from other ...

Want to know Rita Kapurch? Just look at her spoons. Her collection of more than 300 souvenir spoons is a testament to a well-traveled and large circle of friends and family. “It mirrors the fact that ...

April 27 (UPI) --An Iowa woman's collection of souvenir spoons is being publicly counted in an attempt to earn a Guinness World Record. Cammie Pohl estimates she had at least 8,500 souvenir spoons ...

Those airport gift-shop mementos are a link to the past — and to future trips my father and I might have shared. By Hannah Selinger For three years in the 1980s, my father, who was a partner at a ...

Today’s objects offer a glimpse of what in-the-know collectors were acquiring in the early- to mid-20th century, from France, China, Japan and the United States. All but the souvenir spoons were ...