Three more hunts with the ATPro

TheGeorgiaCanuck

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Condensed these three hunts to one post. Raining allot here and chilly, got soaked a couple of times. Anyway on to the finds!

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Junkite of course.

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Coinage. First picture is 2 hunts. Second is third hunt. Third is what appears to be a copper, hallmarked fork. Found it on 1st hunt.

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Hallmarks on the fork. Still trying to clean the gunk out of the hallmarks so I can read them. If anyone has info on copper hallmarks please let me know. I cannot find anything online about it.

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Nickle Silver spoon made in Sheffield England. Date unknown.

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1953 King George VI penny. Front in worse condition.

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Possible fur trade copper bracelet. Need info! It's a simple large copper hoop with crude hash markings all the way around.

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Great seal of Oklanoma button 1907. Yea it's misspelled, it is on any of these you find. Missing the backing for the button. In very bad condition too.

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1986 Expo pin. Westcoast Snowboards button. Junk jewelery penguin.

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Broken aluminum junk jewelery pieces.

And that's it for last weeks hunts. Hope to get out today to a skatepark, lotta grass around it. Hoping for battery money!

GL & HH all!!
 

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TheGeorgiaCanuck

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kleinerschmitter said:
Sweet finds, looks like a 1932 King George Penny to me though ;D

Nope it's 1952, 1932 would be George V and no maple leaves.
 

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Zodiacdiverdave

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Man, I thought that was silver. Still a nice find, it must have been plated at one time.
ZDD
 

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That was a nice days find.. Those AT Pros sure seem to find lots of targets.. Santa may have to bring me one..
 

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Very interesting finds GC! :thumbsup:
I really like this copper, hallmarked fork! :notworthy:

HH, Dave
 

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ANTIQUARIAN said:
Very interesting finds GC! :thumbsup:
I really like this copper, hallmarked fork! :notworthy:

HH, Dave

Anything you can dig up on it, I'd appreciate. As far as I know, silver plated items were not hallmarked. I had no idea that copper was either.
 

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TheGeorgiaCanuck said:
ANTIQUARIAN said:
Very interesting finds GC! :thumbsup:
I really like this copper, hallmarked fork! :notworthy:

HH, Dave

Anything you can dig up on it, I'd appreciate. As far as I know, silver plated items were not hallmarked. I had no idea that copper was either.

Exactly, all those marks just does not make sense not to be silver ??

I found the same (almost) button in my honourable mention thread.
 

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crazy that the fork is not silver.... maybe, just maybe, it is a low karat gold (?)
 

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jewelerguy said:
crazy that the fork is not silver.... maybe, just maybe, it is a low karat gold (?)

Hmmm maybe I should take it to a jeweler to look at. Buffing wheel they use might clean it up better than anything I've tried. I tried cleaning it using the washing soda/salt and aluminum foil/boiling water. That did nothing, so that's why I KNOW it's not silver. Baking soda/water paste did nothing. SOS pad brought out the copper/dark gold sheen, but it doesn't seem to do anything else now.

Did they make low grade gold forks? When I found it I was thinking it was silver because of the weight and the hallmarks. It's a pretty heavy fork compared to any I've seen before.
 

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That fork is an oddity...
overall design looks mid/late 19th century, which is a lot later than usage of the
'kings arrow' also, that doesn't look like a British crown.
I would guess it was originally silver plated, and maybe passed off as Sterling.
Closeups of hallmarks will certainly help.
Very interesting find :wink:
 

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