Excellent Sterling Silver Soldiers Home Oxford New York Souvenir Coffee Spoon for Sale

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Excellent Sterling Silver Soldiers Home Oxford New York Souvenir Coffee Spoon:
$41.99

Excellent Sterling Silver Soldiers Home Oxford New York Souvenir Coffee SpoonMeasures: 5 1/8\" long.
Engraved on a light gold wash bowl with a sating finish: \"Soldiers Home - Oxford\"Beautiful hand tooled image on the bowl of the
Marked Sterling and with the maker\'s mark for Paye & Baker SilversmithsProvidence, RI 1901-1903 and North Attleboro, MA 1903-c. 1960Charles Paye and Frank Baker.
Marked 1911 on the back of the handle.
From Wikipedia:An old soldiers\' home is a military veterans\' retirement home, nursing home, or hospital, or sometimes an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation\'s soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc.
TheNew York State Veterans\' Home at Oxford(formerly theNew York State Woman\'s Relief Corps Home) is anold soldiers\' homelocated east of thevillage of OxfordinChenango County, New York. The home was established forAmerican Civil Warveterans and their wives so they would not be separated in old age.[1]TheWoman\'s Relief Corps(W.R.C.) was an auxiliary of theGrand Army of the RepublicCivil War veterans organization. In the 1890s the Woman\'s Relief Corps campaigned for the establishment of a co-ed old soldiers\' home. Their efforts were rewarded in 1897 with the opening of the state soldiers\' home just outside Oxford.From a pet free and smoke free home.Economical first class shipping is available.
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