2 Firsts - A Hometown Rosie and Sterling Silverware

Jamflicker · Oct 31, 2012

Last night I picked my son up at school and told him we were going metal detecting for about an hour. I gave him the ipad and I grabbed my detector and hit an old abandoned house near me. My first good find was my first sterling piece of silverware, a mangled spoon. It is dated 1913 and says sterling with a bunch of hallmarks and weights 24.2 grams. It also pays to remove trash as there was a shredded aluminum can on top of it. When I removed the can I got another signal which was the spoon. I included a few pics before cleaning the spoon.

I also found a Rosie which was the first silver coin I have found in my own city. Hard to believe it took this long, but 120 silver coins later I got my first.

I also found a 1929d wheat, 1949 license plate tag, and a Plymouth key.

Jason

GStout76 · Oct 31, 2012

Nice hunt Jason. Congrats on some cool finds and nice keepers.

Greg

carcur · Oct 31, 2012

congrats on the silver spoon
I grew up in north long beach and my mom says that I lost some silver spoons in the backyard somewhere

NevTrac · Oct 31, 2012

Congrats on the finds Jason! I haven't found any sterling silverware yet. I guess I need to go hunt Curtis's old backyard :laughing:

Jamflicker · Nov 1, 2012

GStout76 said:
Nice hunt Jason. Congrats on some cool finds and nice keepers.

Greg

Thanks Greg!

carcur said:
congrats on the silver spoon
I grew up in north long beach and my mom says that I lost some silver spoons in the backyard somewhere

Thanks Curtis! Whats is that address to you backyard in Long Beach?

NevTrac said:
Congrats on the finds Jason! I haven't found any sterling silverware yet. I guess I need to go hunt Curtis's old backyard

Thanks Keith! Hope you find some sterling silverware, but if you don't I guess you can always take a road trip to Curtis's old house.

HEAVYMETALNUT · Nov 1, 2012

awesome! sterling silverware don't come up too often! congrats!

milco · Nov 1, 2012

Nice chunk of sterling, cool! I have not seen to many sterling pieces dug and posted before, so they must not be found that often, congrats!

Jamflicker · Nov 2, 2012

Thanks guys! Yeah I haven't seen a lot posted either and was sure happy when I saw sterling marked on the back.

HEAVYMETALNUT said:
awesome! sterling silverware don't come up too often! congrats!

milco said:
Nice chunk of sterling, cool! I have not seen to many sterling pieces dug and posted before, so they must not be found that often, congrats!

carcur · Nov 2, 2012

360 E 61st NLB

SeabeeRon · Nov 2, 2012

Great hunt Jason!! I was looking at the pix before I read the text and knew that license tag looked familiar but couldn't place it! Thanks for the ID!

Jamflicker · Nov 2, 2012

Thanks Ron! Someone indentified the first one I found a while ago. I actually found another one tonight in an old lot.

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