Lot 163
Antique Copper Spikes From the U.S.S. New Hampshire - From Paul Revere's Foundry. Two spikes made of 95% pure copper and 5% gold and silver, one 9¾" and the other 7". The copper spikes were made for the U.S. Navy at the Paul Revere Foundry and are stamped "US." Found in the wreckage of the U.S. S. New Hampshire, which began as the Alabama, authorized by Congress in 1816 as a 74-gun ship of the line and laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Maine, in June 1819. Although ready in 1825, the 2,675 ton (2,633 long tons) remained on the stocks until 1863, when she was renamed (being a Union ship) and went to sea on June 15, 1864 as a storeship with the blockading fleets off the Southern Coasts. In 1905, she was renamed the Granite State and was used as the armory of the First Battalion of the N.Y. Naval Militia. After several fires, she sank in July of 1922 off Massachusetts at Graves Island. Accompanied by a page from an article by one of the divers who recovered relics from the ship and a sail plan, showing what the ship looked like.
Estimated Value $300 - 500.
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| Realized $432 |
