CIVIL WAR ERA CAMP SPOON

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Item Code: 465-63

Tin spoon meas. approx. 8.00 inches long. Many of these style spoons are dug in Civil War campsites. This one is in good condition with moderate to heavy wear.  Patent date on reverse of handle.

This spoon was made under Gary Mix's patent for making iron spoons, Letters Patent No. 18,513, dated October 27, 1857.

"The nature of my invention consists in having the rivet or pin which secures the handle and bowl together, formed on the handle at the same time and by the same die which gives form to the handle, and thus instead of having to insert a rivet one is already provided which forms part and parcel of the handle, and is more firm on account of but one end being separated from the metal forming the spoon, this mode of constructing spoons providing an improved article of manufacture, to wit: an iron spoon with the rivet forming part and parcel of the handle." This info was found at  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~silversmiths/makers/silversmiths/138358.htm

 

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