Souvenir spoon: SS St. Paul, Long Branch, N.J.

c. 1896

Maker

Wendell Manufacturing Co. (1885-c. 1900)

Measurements

5 in x 1-1/8 in x 5/8 in

Materials

Silver with a gold-washed bowl

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1212

Inscription

"W" flanked by lions facing it and "STERLING" are stamped into the back of the handle.

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

The steamship Saint Paul, launched in Philadelphia in 1895, ran aground in fog on January 25, 1896, at Long Branch, New Jersey.  At the time the passenger ship, and its sister ship the St. Louis, were the largest vessels ever constructed in America.  It was refloated about a week later.  The ship was scrapped in 1923.