Found small silver spoon with engravings and square mint marks both Tw over 79 and initials ECM

[Steevoho]

I never found anything like this it has all kinds of initials two dates 1842 and 1965 strange

 

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[Sandog]

Nice one.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

That's nice. Where did you find it? I think it might be a Tin Woodsman spoon (now Crosby and Taylor) but I can't find anything on ECM or the 79.

 

[Steevoho]

That's nice. Where did you find it? I think it might be a Tin Woodsman spoon (now Crosby and Taylor) but I can't find anything on ECM or the 79.

I found it in northern az coconino national forest found by old like stronghold I guess idk old rock building

 

[vpnavy]

I never found anything like this it has all kinds of initials two dates 1842 and 1965 strange

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

Nice find !

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

I never found anything like this it has all kinds of initials two dates 1842 and 1965 strange

interesting recovery, love the spoons, wtg

 

[Digger RJ]

I never found anything like this it has all kinds of initials two dates 1842 and 1965 strange

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[oldmxrat]

That's a really cool find, congrats!

 

[tamrock]

Pretty nice find. The marks are sure interesting and not ones I recognize from the get-go. It very well could be solid silver. I'm only guessing it's from around the time of the Civil War. Maybe older, maybe not 🤔

Red-Coat might get on it after he's had his dinner.

 

[Red-Coat]

Red-Coat might get on it after he's had his dinner.

Slow-cooked beef cheeks in a red wine and marrowbone gravy with horseradish, herby dumplings and star-anise glazed carrots if you’re interested. We have such a great variety of ready meals in the UK versus what you can find in America.


Regarding the spoon, it looks to me like early American work in coin silver (nominal .900 fine but unassayed) and, if the ‘79’ is the original date mark, likely to be for 1779 rather than 1879.
I checked all the reference works I have for early American silversmiths and, although a number of them have ‘TW’ initials, I couldn’t find a match to the ‘TW’ unserifed letters with no stops in between. There are however still numerous unattributed marks from small or short-lived makers.
The engravings I think are not particularly relevant to identification, being post-manufacturing personalisations.