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I am wondering if the quality of the EGM monogram on the spoon handle could provide a clue as to where and when the spoon was made.

Dear wev ~ I believe that you are correct. The marking shown on the Confederate sword looks nothing like the J.C. Wilson maker's mark on the spoon or the sugar tongs. I suspect that any suggested Houston connection with the spoon is erroneous, and that the it was made in a place like Philadelphia or...

I have a family heirloom coin silver serving spoon with maker's mark J.C. WILSON. The original owner of the monogrammed spoon, Ephraim Gilmore Means (1795 -1873), lived in Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia). Family story is that the spoon was made from silver dollars the owner earned as a drummer ...