Spoons..bust em out...

[steve in so la]

Here's one I dug.

World's Fair

Steve in so az

 

[Digger-Dave]

I don't have any expensive or realy fancy ones, but they were cool digging.

The top is a Rogers Brothers 1847 Pattern from like 1936. Found this one still in the small camp fire pit with the chicken bones.

The lower one is from the Crown Silver Company from like 1881.

 

[willyeinstien]

Heres mine top 2 are plated silver--same hole! middle one is thick heavy copper no marks at all--found same area as many tin dishes seems old! bottom 2are junk-SS!

 

[IBMer]

Amazing that people actually took their good silver out on picnics.. The few spoons I've found were always cheap and bent up. Although I found one that appears to be military in nature behind a very old home that was used to feed soldiers during the war of 1812. The Only mark on it is an eagle or hawk with it's wings spread, on the back side of the handle, maybe holding arrows in it's claws.

 

[Digger-Dave]

Amazing that people actually took their good silver out on picnics....

We're sure people did this. It was long before plastic ware.

I'm sure little kids took spoons and stuff out of the house to dig and play with too.

 

[Ice Scratcher]

Steve in so az,

That is a really cool spoon, any story to that dig?

Thanks to all for sharing!

No spoons this year, yet, for me...

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[DigDugNY]

Found Today...Reed & Barton Silver Wheat pattern Teaspoon (Sterling Silver). Pattern was created in 1952

 

[Ice Scratcher]

Found Today...Reed & Barton Silver Wheat pattern Teaspoon (Sterling Silver). Pattern was created in 1952

Nice dig there Bobby!! Congrats!!

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[Donneybrook]

Mine is a spoon I found in my backyard, not silver but it did belong to a soldier in the Second Seminole War! This dates before 1842.

 

[jwp1964]

Two this week...

1939 Court Silver Plate Teaspoon and a "US Sterling" Spoon I think dates to 1890s.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

First silver spoon. This was a few months back.

Was out for about an hour this morning when I got a strong sound coming out of my Cutlass II Tesoro. Yep my first silver spoon...National Overture 1936 pattern sterling silver. I found this at a park area near some tennis courts. I wonder who would have taken this to a picnic.

 

[SamTheDigger]

Wow great finds! I'm still waiting for my first spoon find

 

[Hannibal Nectar]

 

[milkman101]

Spoon Found on Captial Hill, WA

It may have had the handle shortened so they could cook better with it....

I found this old girl 15 years ago....she was left by crackheads....She lives like a queen now..

 

[btech]

Here is my favorite spoon find...pretty sure it's plated, but it's a nice one. HH!

 

[Ice Scratcher]

Dang, a whole bunch of cool spoons since I last checked this thread!! Thanks for posting guys!!

Staying on the topic of silver spoons, I never thought I would get to post another on this thread so soon!! But today, at a school, it rang up as an 83, I was thinking, yes, another merc!! I was slightly disappointed once I dug enough to see the bowl of the spoon, I had already dug a couple aluminum measuring spoons this year..

I fished it out of the hole and discovered it was my first baby spoon! It was not as shiny as silver should be, but this ground it tough on silver for some reason... I rubbed the back just enough to read "sterling" and my day was made right there!! It took a lot of cleaning with baking soda but it now looks ready to feed a little one again..

Proud to put another on the board...

My collection so far...

Keep em coming guys!!

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[Shavnore]

Very nice!

 

[Ron 71]

Thanks for the old thread Ice Scratcher!
I got a couple spoons to share, hopefully inspire others to share too.
There's got to be a good deal of em out there (3 year old thread).
I don't know why but I love digging the spoons, lots of nice ones in this thread.

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[Ice Scratcher]

Couple nice oldies Ron...

Looks like you tried to chop the two silver ones about the exact same... What happened, heard that silver tone got a little frisky with the digger? Just messing with ya.. I've chopped up a couple really nice digs too..

Mine always happens when I just had a hard time digging a bunch of junk finds a get frustrated, and then... I get to feel really stupid lol...

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[Ron 71]

Couple nice oldies Ron...

Looks like you tried to chop the two silver ones about the exact same... What happened, heard that silver tone got a little frisky with the digger? Just messing with ya.. I've chopped up a couple really nice digs too..

Mine always happens when I just had a hard time digging a bunch of junk finds a get frustrated, and then... I get to feel really stupid lol...

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LOL, Yeah I definitely need to be more careful digging.