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The listing, ~*~ Antique/vintage Sterling Silver Spoon~*~ has ended.

This is a really cool spoon it says sterling on the handle & march 9,1862 in the spoon. I don't know if that's when it's from or if it's about Merrimack & monitors. Hampton roads. I don't know anything about it but I've had it for years just because I like it!!
Time for a new home
This spoon is approx. 5&1/4 inches long and weighes 17g. Or .600oz.
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Questions & Comments

AdikaviDasa you are incorrect. First the Monitor and Merrimack were not submarines but rather the first Ironclads. Neither vessel was sunk ;the battle was a draw. The Monitor could possible have won but the designer John Ericson did not want to risk using full charges in the Dahlgren guns and thus were unable to penetrate the Merrimack's sides. The Captain of the Monitor was injured when the pilot house took a direct hit, he was temporarily blinded and his face blacked by powder burns. The Monitor sunk off Cape Hatteras in a Storm and not in battle.

Oct 6th, 2014 at 11:15:32 PM PDT by

Ok wow!

Oct 7th, 2014 at 8:10:10 PM PDT by

Awesome F&W

Oct 2nd, 2014 at 7:19:12 PM PDT by

Thank you. :)

Oct 2nd, 2014 at 8:34:45 PM PDT by

YVW :)

Oct 2nd, 2014 at 11:15:49 PM PDT by

what is stamped on back of handle ?
Is it stamped sterling silver ?

Oct 3rd, 2014 at 9:21:51 AM PDT by

Yes that's what it says on the back

Oct 5th, 2014 at 6:03:49 AM PDT by

During the civil war the merrimack and the monitor were the first two submarines that ever fought in a war. One was the South's and one the North's. Both were sunk in the battle and everyone died as far as I remember from high school. After that they gave up on Submarines for a while. So I would guess the spoon was made in commemoration of that event and not on the day of the actual battle.

Oct 5th, 2014 at 8:29:17 PM PDT by

Wow that's cool I didn't know that

Oct 7th, 2014 at 8:09:05 PM PDT by

Yes your right earlhandy !! and it was made in commemoration of that event

Oct 7th, 2014 at 9:36:14 AM PDT by

It would be good to know what year it was made. I have a book on the Monitor that was printed 50 years after the battle of Hampton Rhodes in 912 from the library of a decommissioned Navy Hospital ship the "USS Mercey"

Oct 8th, 2014 at 1:28:09 PM PDT by

I guess I have my history mixed up from High School. :)

Oct 8th, 2014 at 4:45:31 PM PDT by

I wonder if this was a one off by some artist that they etched into a silver spoon simular to love tokens people made from silver coins rather than an official commemorative spoon?

Oct 9th, 2014 at 11:37:13 AM PDT by

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FREE: ~*~ Antique/vintage Sterling Silver Spoon~*~

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