A raining 4 silver spoon type of day

[creade]

I woke up today and it was raining pretty good but I figured, hey , this thing is waterproof so let's go. I figured I shouldn't go to far just in case it started dumping buckets on me. I have my limits. I've pounded the crap out of this site for 2 years but I figured maybe the water would help. After 3 hours, I had nothing but some broken brass and 2 ox shoes. I was about to call it but decided to check something first. This is where I found some jewelry last year, I wondered if I got it all. Yup, nothing. Ready to call it, I started walking to my car . All of a sudden I got this loud , crappy grunt mixed with a great high tone. I put the shovel in , expecting to hit a stove lid( I've dug those before) but it was what was left of what I think was a metal box. I scanned it again, this time just the high tone. I put the shovel in , pulled out some dirt and saw a silver handle. Went back to my car and got my digging tool since I nailed but other spoon with the shovel. I pulled out 4 spoons. They're not sterling , coin silver, but I'm good!

 

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[ARC]

Can you please take a close up of the marks on backside... ?

 

[Argentium]

Yeah , I too would love to see the mark and the engraved handles as well ! Coin is .900 fine ! I'd much rather find old coin
silver spoons than newer sterling ones . In the early U.S.- Coin silver was the go to supply of silver for the working silversmith.
I do sort of cringe when I envision some of those coins dropping into the crucible (in addition to Spanish and other foreign,
there would have been untold numbers of Draped Bust series , Capped Bust , and early Seated Liberty series too ) I think
your spoons are circa 1830's -1850's . Outstanding Finds !

 

[sutphin]

CREADE YOU ARE GRANTED A REPREIVE, AND THE 4 1700S SPOONS, HAVE SET YOU FREE,VANZUTPHEN

 

[creade]

Here's the pics. 2 spoons are the same







The next one



I can't read the next one. This is the best I can do with my camera and my eyes suck







I think the last pic says boston

 

[Argentium]

Thank you for the added pics ! Is the word coin on any of them ? (how did you ascertain the alloy ?)

 

[ARC]

I cannot read them at all... the marks...
You may have to use a tooth brush and water in a circular motion on the marks for a few seconds...
see if you can make out those marks.

The reason I am interested is because you just MAY have some cool history here...

These may or may not be a couple of possibilities...

OR use a magnifying glass and try to see the marks and relay here.

 

[creade]

Starr& Bacall,A.Richardson, A.Holmes are the names

 

[creade]

Definitely a A

 

[ARC]

Welp I am familiar a "J" Richardson... Joseph Richardson of PA... , c.1770 - 1780
His stuff goes for some bucks...
I do not know if there is a relation here.

Maybe someone here has some extra knowledge on these flatware pieces.

 

[Helix]

I would like to hear more about this metal box and how they were buried. I always get excited when I come across perfectly vertical buried metal cans and jars. Been a few times I have ran into old coffe cans and jars buried perfectly vertical, like it was intentionally place that way and not just tossed like dumped trash. Once dug complete mason jar, it was broken but obviously buried whole and standing up right. That got me going for a second. Of corse they were empty.....

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Very nice spoons finding a set like that is a great find in my book !!!

 

[Argentium]

This is a very special find ! I'm still interested to hear how you established the silver content ? I'm also interested in the
remnants of the container these were found in -

 

[creade]

I didn't do any acid test or anything like that. The way I determined it to be coin is first off , a magnet. I always have one with me when I go out. This was non magnetic. It is also very soft. Silver plate is rigid. And( someone told me this) silver has a "smell to it" . I didn't believe that one until I found a spoon 2 years ago. What i found was essentially 2 rusted pieces of metal that were joined together at 90 degrees. One side was 6-8 in by about 10. That's what I pulled up. The rest had disintegrated into small little pebble size pieces . The dirt around these seemed awlfully , so I wonder if they were wrapped in something that is long gone. I think that this was probably someone's good silver that maybe they used on a special occasion and whether the place burned down or something happened,it was left behind. I tend to think that maybe Indian raid? But who knows. I don't see any evidence of a fire that I've seen in other sights( ash,charcoal or charred chimney bricks)

 

[RelicMedic]

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ARC]

Silver usually has no smell.

 

[creade]

Someone that collects silver told me that . When you do a rub, that's when you smell something. Its very faint but I smell it.