Old Spoon

[SchoolOfHardRocks]

While prospecting earlier this week in an area inhabited by the 49ers, the chinese, and even some folks during the depression i came across this old looking spoon.

It has purple and green color to it. Im just wondering l, how old can it be.. Is it silver?
Im sure this topic takes a better place somewhere on this site but i couldnt find the most suitable place so i just posted on the old trusty prospecting forum..thoughts?

 

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[mytimetoshine]

Check the back of the handle for the numbers 925 - sterling silver usually has this mark.

 

[HMiller]

I'll bet the old timers used it to feed their cons in their Miller table.

Sounds like a neat story anyway.

 

[ratled]

There should be some other marks stamped on the back of the handle that should tell who made it and when.

ratled

 

[SchoolOfHardRocks]

Nothing on the back..it may be copper?

 

[ratled]

Nothing on the back..it may be copper?

Maybe not that old then

ratled

 

[xr7ator]

The purple and green sound and look like copper to me. Probabaly silver plate when made.

 

[Jeff95531]

All I know is I LOVE finding the history during the hunt. Last time out I was digging all kinds of non metal that was mixed in with the miner's camp dump...which pointed me to his cabin. What's not to like during a day like that?

 

[Aufisher]

Some of the Chinese pottery is still washing down the creek.

 

[Bodfish Mike]

Nice find -- be careful of the Antiquities Act -- One of the spots I go to in Kern county will give you a ticket for taking an old beer can.

 

[bobw53]

Nice find -- be careful of the Antiquities Act -- One of the spots I go to in Kern county will give you a ticket for taking an old beer can.

So if I let my trash sit for 100 years, it becomes an antique and then nobody can throw it away or move it?

Out exploring a few weeks ago, and I came up a hill below a flat(where my truck was parked).. COVERED in old rusty cans and thick thick old glass.. Must have been an old camp
on that flat, a few hundred yards from several BIG DEEP mines... I took a few pieces of glass, one of which was clear/pink.. Just looked neat... Either way, I don't care how old
it is.. Its still TRASH.

 

[SunshineMiner]

Actually bobw53.... its 50 years... which makes it a little ridiculous in this young guys eyes. 100 years. Maybe. 50. No. Thats not even someones full LIFE these days. Hell... people are living to 90+ and you want to call 50 years antiques!? They need to update their system

 

[63bkpkr]

Once, I came across some old plates mfg. in England and some unusual food holding 'tins' on a hillside overlooking a 49'ers type river. I left everything there but it was cool to come across. Many years back I found a 4" outlet monitor nozzle in some bushes along with Champagne Bottles that were turning pink/purple from sunlight exposure scattered all over the old mining camp. There are a lot of reminders out there of those who have been there before us, of course if we left those things out there we would be charged for littering and be fined if not jailed but do not dare to touch the old stuff, now! Politics, sigh................63bkpkr

 

[arizau]

So if I let my trash sit for 100 years, it becomes an antique and then nobody can throw it away or move it?

Out exploring a few weeks ago, and I came up a hill below a flat(where my truck was parked).. COVERED in old rusty cans and thick thick old glass.. Must have been an old camp
on that flat, a few hundred yards from several BIG DEEP mines... I took a few pieces of glass, one of which was clear/pink.. Just looked neat... Either way, I don't care how old
it is.. Its still TRASH.

"One man's trash, another man's treasure". Now where did you put the ore carts?