Awesome spoon with a slight bend.

Garabaldi · Apr 5, 2011

Found a nice spoon, looks like silver with the initials H.K. and the back says something like "O.I

BLEY".

1936 Buffalo Head, two musket balls, lead seal, Tomabac button, buckle bit and some small artifact with a small hole in it. :icon_scratch:

ewcoinhunter · Apr 5, 2011

Re: Awesome spoon with a slite bend.

Do you think it is bent or how it was made? HaHa! Great finds. :icon_thumright:

testing123 · Apr 5, 2011

nice finds... i think the spoon might be coin silver

Garabaldi · Apr 5, 2011

Re: Awesome spoon with a slite bend.

ewcoinhunter said:
Do you think it is bent or how it was made? HaHa! Great finds.

Must be how it was made. :wink:

Thanks!

testing123 said:
nice finds... i think the spoon might be coin silver

Thanks, I think your right about the coin silver. :icon_thumleft:

RickyD · Apr 5, 2011

The item with the hole in it was most likely a fishing sinker. Back then necessity truely was the mother of invention.

Garabaldi · Apr 5, 2011

RickyD said:
The item with the hole in it was most likely a fishing sinker. Back then necessity truely was the mother of invention.

Colonial sinker?

RickyD · Apr 5, 2011

Because fishing has always been an important food source, archiological digs of the first settlers up here unearthed fishing sinkers that were nothing more than flattened lead with a hole drilled in it, just like the one pictured.

testing123 · Apr 5, 2011

I have a spoon in my collection from an "O. E. Sibley"... same person?

Garabaldi · Apr 5, 2011

RickyD said:
Because fishing has always been an important food source, archiological digs of the first settlers up here unearthed fishing sinkers that were nothing more than flattened lead with a hole drilled in it, just like the one pictured.

Interesting, thanks. :icon_thumleft: