COMMODORE PERRY PUT IN BAY BIG LETTERS OHIO STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR SPOON

Description

Great vintage and beautiful sterling silver spoon from Put-In-Bay Lake Erie Pennsylvania dating back to years around 1900 featuring on the front of handle big block letters reading OHIO with entwined detailed image within; on the top detailed image of state seal, below oil well or oil derrick, corn and wheat plant. In the bowl it has embossed very detailed image of militia on a boat, big tall ship in the distance, the writing is WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE OURS and below PERRY TRANSFERING HIS FLAG PUT-IN-BAY SEPT, 10, 1813.” The image represents Perry Transferring His Flag PUT-IN-BAY SEPT, 10, 1813. It is in excellent condition, measures 5-5/8” long (141 mm). On the back marked STERLING. Shipping on multiple purchases are gladly combined. Please see other, some rare, collector spoons I'm currently listing.
Here is some history:
On Lake Erie, September 10, 1813, and on Lake Champlain, September 11, 1814, the most colorful and decisive sea battles of the War of 1812 were fought. In 1813 the British were in control of Lake Erie. All American attempts to invade Canada had met with disaster. At Erie, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry took command of the American fleet which had been created literally from green timbers of the forest. Aboard his flagship, the brig Lawrence, flying a flag reading "Don't Give Up the Ship" (now in the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.), Perry set out with eight other ships to meet the British. When the Lawrence was put out of action, Perry seized his flag and transferred to the Niagara. Raking at close range, he sailed through the enemy line, and after fifteen minutes of his cannonade, the British surrendered. It was then that Perry sent his famous message to General William Henry Harrison: "We have met the enemy and they are ours”. Scene in the bowl is “Perry Transferring His Flag at the Battle of Lake Erie," famous painting by W. H. Powell now hangs in the Capitol at Washington. The scene shows the transfer of the flag. Perry's 12-year-old brother, a midshipman, beside him in the sternsheets.