A 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN STERLING SILVER ‘JIMMY GRIFFIN’ COMMEMORATIVE TEASPOON

by Gorham, retailed by Greenleaf and Crosby, Jacksonville, the terminal cast with portrait of Jimmy Griffin, the gilded bowl engraved ‘Hot Springs VA’

Note: In the 1890s, Jimmy Griffin was a young paperboy with a torn hat and a broad smile who supposedly sold newspapers on the streets of Jacksonville. An unknown artist painted his portrait and a number of companies adopted the picture of the boy as the motif on some of their novelty merchandise.