Best find so far!.. Sterling Silver Chainmail Coin Purse.. COOL

Minrelica

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I bought a used Minelab SE a couple weeks ago and I've already noticed that I'm finding deeper targets that I was with my other machines. Surprisingly, I haven't really been finding a lot of clad as I expected. That's totally fine but just strange to me I guess. What I have been finding the past few hunts is a lot of pull-tabs and can slaw which is totally on me because I know this will be an awesome machine once I learn it. I wasn't planning on going out today but I did anyway. After 20 minutes of digging a few pull-tabs and junk at a park, I hit a pretty "crappy" signal about 6" down and jumping all over the place. I told myself that if it was junk, I was heading home to study the machine more. Well, after digging a little further down than the plug I pulled out this baby. It took a second to register what I had in my hand but it soon put a smile on my face.

I rinsed it off with water and put it in my ultrasonic cleaner for 5-6 cycles. I knew it was sterling but now I see a hallmark as well which I haven't researched. Anyone know what the hallmark is? Also, anyone know the approximate age? Is this just called a "chainmail coin purse'?

This is definitely the coolest thing I've found so far this year. 8-) Thanks for looking...

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JohnnyMac

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Wow that's a beauty! Congrats
 

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Damn...that's awesome. I'd be proud to be the finder of that.
 

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Dare I say "Banner"? It is very unique and in great shape!! Well Done!! :icon_thumleft:
 

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Congrats on your Find.
I have never seen anything like that before.
I do not have any idea how old it is or who made it, sorry.
Great Find though.
Kevin
 

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Great find and useful too. You can put all your coin finds in it while your hunting :thumbsup:
 

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now that my friend is an awesome find congrats:notworthy:
 

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Thanks guys!

It would have been pretty sweet to find a coin or two in there as well.

I need to ID the hallmark. At first I thought it was just the circle, flower looking stamp but it's a little bigger than that.

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Possible it was made by Howard Sterling Co of Providence RI 1887-1902 - trademark included a shamrock/4 leaf clover design.
 

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thanks for the comments, guys.

deepsecrets, that's a step in the right direction. I'm hoping maybe someone has a hallmark book or just knows their marks good enough to make a positive ID. I know there's a lot of websites but I'm not sure even where to start. I'm hoping maybe a hallmark ID could help date it. :dontknow:
 

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That's a totally cool and unique find for sure :thumbsup: it looks like it's from the days of the flapper, I'd say 20's ???
 

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Thanks FF, I'll look into this more tonight. I'm surprised that none of Tnet's very knowledgeable posters has made a positive ID. I'll do more research
 

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Best coin purse I've ever seen dug, mine are always partials, and never with anything in them.
Kudos!
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Really sweet find. I've never seen one dug intact, and all the ones I've seen (which isn't that many) were German Silver and not sterling. I think you have a good one there!
 

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that is beautiful. I think they were most popular 1910's-1920's. one heck of a find there. congrats!
 

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