RARE WOMEN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY BOSTON STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR SPOON

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Here is high quality sterling silver spoon from Boston Massachusetts dating to years around 1900 featuring images on both sides of handle, starting from the top: globe with cross over it and writing around reading WOMEN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, below flag with cross on it, then banner with KH letters and lighted candle on a candle holder. In the bowl it has embossed image of church building, the writing is ‘W.F.M.S’ ORGENIZED 1869, TREMONT ST. CHURCH, BOSTON. On the back has a globe and banner down the handle. Condition of the spoon is excellent, measures 5-3/8” long (136 mm). On the back marked STERLING and C.D. PEACOCK and engraved ELKHART 10.9. ‘06. Shipping on multiple purchases are gladly combined. Please see other, some rare, collector spoons I'm currently listing.
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Historical Sketch; In 1869 leading women in the Methodist Episcopal Church began to consider organizing to extend the Gospel to women by women". In 1870 this movement springing up spontaneously among women of the Church was formally organized as the "Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church". As it grew, branches were established; all were conducted by women who volunteered their services because of missionary concerns. The "branches" were centers for the recruitment of young women for overseas careers, for education in surrounding churches, and for securing funds for missionary support.