Indian Trade Silver "Luckenbooth"

West Jersey Detecting

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I'm really starting to like the Minelab Equinox 800. I've been going back to a site I thought I cleaned out, and although the signals are getting scarce, I'm squeaking out some buttons and other relics from the iron patches. It also helped that I was equipped with hedge trimmers to get into the briars!

My second signal of the day was a solid 12 on the "Nox", using the Field 2 program at a sensitivity of 23, and out of the ground came colonial silver! It's a shame that it's broken, but I'm optimistic about finding the other half. After all, the pictured rosette button is the 5th matching one from the site!
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Steve in PA

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Nice finds. I have experienced the heartbreak of a broken Luckenbooth, but I would not go as far as to call one Indian Trade Silver unless it came off an Indian related site, such as a Indian trader site or village. Mine came from a 1780/90 house site in western PA and has engraving.
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Mr. Digger

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Nice finds! I found a Luckenbooth silver as well and was hoping it was trade silver but the experts said no.
 

billb

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Very nice ..Yes with Colonial silver around
,try to get back
 

Relicific

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Old silver is a great find
 

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