JAMESTOWN VIRGINIA SILVER SPOON, EARLY 1600’s

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JAMESTOWN VIRGINIA SILVER SPOON, EARLY 1600’sThis rather crude Jamestown made silver spoon was found by Captain William Allen in 1861 at the sight of the old Jamestown fort on the James River in Virginia. It is 5 5/8” long with a 2 3/16” x 1 5/16” oval spoon on the end & still shows some filing scars on the handle area which is now bent to the left. It is in good excavated condition & has a dull silvery patina. Jamestown artifacts are quite rare now & are very seldom seen in antique shops or at antique shows!William Allen was a Captain & Major in the Confederate artillery & as the commander of Company E, 1 st Regiment, Virginia Artillery he set up a battery of cannons at the sight of the old Jamestown fort & Jamestown Village which he owned to keep the union fleet from using the James River to attack Richmond in 1861. He was promoted to Major & commanded the 10 th Battalion of Virginia Artillery at Brooks Turnpike & Drewry’s Bluff as part of the Richmond defenses from 1862 to 1865. When he was construction the artillery defenses on Jamestown Island he found quite a few artifacts from the early 1600’s & as an armature historian, he sent them home to his plantation for storage. It has been passed down by the Allen family along with the Jamestown artifacts until I bought them in 2015 from Major Allen’s descendant. It comes read more
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