Great Gasby Mansion Tiffany Silver

[RelicMaster777]

Hey ya'll glad to be a new member of treasure net. I thought I post a find I made yesterday thats pretty interesting. I live on Long Island and I'm able to hunt a Great Gatsby mansion that is now a many acre county preserve. The main house was built at the turn of the century and was built by one of the riches men in the world back then. But I have been pulling stuff from the late 1700's to the present. I have found many 1800's flat buttons and a few late 1700's buttons, Tons of IHP and brass and iron relics. Even a holed 1790 holed 1/2 reale.
I have been hunting the front and back lawns for two years, first with a CTX and now with a Equinox 800 and A makro multi kruzer. I don't like the Nox for relics as the VDI target id numbers are ridiculous. Well yesterday hunting with the Multi Kruzer in a area that I have pounded with the nox I got a repeatable jumpy 50-90.
Now for the bad news. After I cut the plug about 6" deep the target seemed to be in the side wall. I was so hot out and the ground was so dry and hard I chopped into the side wall and out popped the coolest looking two prong silver fork. As I was filming the find I noticed it was bent and I could see I had hit it right a weak point. Well when I got it home and clean it, it broke in two. Bummer
Then on closer inception I found out it's a Tiffany & Co. STG Sterling Strawberry fork made 1900-01 and it has a P monogramed on it.
The P is for Pratt (Charles Pratt) one of the riches people in the world back then. You can look up the family name.
What a bummer I hit it and broke it.
I also found a super slick and super thin Spanish 1/2 Reale

 

[Hawks88]

That’s a real nice find. Im sure it can be fixed. Congrats!

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Relicmaster, congrats on your recent finds! Truly awesome "strawberry fork", I never heard if such a thing, you learn something new every day! I'm also jealous of your current hunting grounds, that has got to be a most rewarding site. I (we) would love to see all what you've pulled out of there! And welcome to Tnet!! Ddf.

 

[claire]

Super finds. How did you get permission to hunt a Gold Coast mansion? I usually hunt the beaches, but what an opportunity you have. Would love to see more of what you have found. Congratulation!

 

[Argentium]

Well the good news is that the fork can be repaired by a competent silversmith ! ( shouldn't cost much ) you didn't mention all the silver dimes seen at the top of your pics !

 

[RelicMaster777]

Hey thanks for the welcome dirtdigginfool.
Here's a video of some hunt there with some of the find.
Metal Detecting Gold Coast Great Gatsby mansion , Silver, Coins, Relics

 

[RelicMaster777]

Thanks Hawks88

 

[RelicMaster777]

Thanks Caire I posted a video of some hunts there in this thread, but I don't know why it's not showing up. It's a county preserve and no one bothers me. If it doesn't show up on this post you can find it on youtube. just search the title.
Metal Detecting Gold Coast Great Gatsby mansion , Silver, Coins, Relics

 

[claire]

I really enjoyed the video! Makes this south shore gal want to venture to the north Shore! Look forward to seeing more of your finds

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice hunt, congratulations!

 

[Jay Banta]

Awesome find!! I’m sure you’ll find far more!!!!

 

[orange_sweetheart]

Congrats -- Keep posting your Gatsby-mansion finds!

 

[against the wind]

Hey buddy,, great post and some really nice finds.
Here are 2 suggestions that may make you feel better about the damaged fork.
The first is to locate a jeweler and have him repair the fork with silver solder. Or, have that jeweler turn the fork handle into a ring.
Congrats on your finds.

 

[A2coins]

thsts banner to me makes me wonder if my machine is even eorking some of these cool finds

 

[Robot]

The Rich Only Wanted and Bought...Tiffany!

Tiffany & Co. Known as Tiffany and Company...T & Co. around turn of the 20th Century


T & Co.. STG

 

[Javadroid]

Great finds and an awesome site to hunt. Enjoyed your video as well. Congrats!

 

[RelicMaster777]

Hey Robot, cool pictures and your right. The Rich Only Wanted and Bought...Tiffany! The cool thing about this find is it has a monogramed P on it, that directly links it to Charles Pratt. The owner and builder of the mansion and thats what I have been searching for. Talk about rich beyond rich this guy was it. Back in the late seventies some friends of mine were into metal detecting went there and found a gold cigarette case with his initials on it in the formal gardens. Luckily they did not have the detecters we have today..lol.
Today so much of this estate is so overgrown it will never be able to be detected and the finds in the open areas are becoming more scarce thanks to me.

 

[A2coins]

welcome to tnet

 

[Robot]

There is Gold in In Them There Hills...Texas Tea...As In...Standard Oil!

Hey Robot, cool pictures and your right. The Rich Only Wanted and Bought...Tiffany! The cool thing about this find is it has a monogramed P on it, that directly links it to Charles Pratt. The owner and builder of the mansion and thats what I have been searching for. Talk about rich beyond rich this guy was it. Back in the late seventies some friends of mine were into metal detecting went there and found a gold cigarette case with his initials on it in the formal gardens. Luckily they did not have the detecters we have today..lol.
Today so much of this estate is so overgrown it will never be able to be detected and the finds in the open areas are becoming more scarce thanks to me.

Long Island mansions[edit]

After his death, Charles Pratt's six sons and two daughters later built their own family estates in Glen Cove. As of 2004, most of the extant Pratt family Gold Coast Mansions are still in use:

• Welwyn, originally the home of Harold I. Pratt, is owned by and operated as the Welwyn Preserve, a Nassau County park. The mansion is now the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.[SUP][15][/SUP]
• The Braes, originally owned by Herbert L. Pratt, is now the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
• The Manor House, built for John Teele Pratt, is now the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel & Conference Center.
• Poplar Hill, the Frederic B. Pratt house, is now the Glengariff Healthcare Center, housing both Glengariff, a long-term nursing care facility and the Pratt Pavilion for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a state-of-the-art, short-term, sub-acute rehabilitation center.
• Killenworth, originally the house of George Dupont Pratt, has, since the mid-20th century, been the country retreat for the Russian Delegation to the United Nations.

I wonder which Pratt's Mansion it came from?

I am betting...The Braes?