HUGE silver, 1910 boat permit, buffalo and 30 pounds of trash.

[diamondjim]

started with a really rough day in the woods, hunting down another impossible site...bailed on that on moved to a site I've always known still had good stuff, but the trash is so amazingly thick it's impossible to work.

so today we took out a bucket, each of us starting cleaning a different spot...pretty much completely ignoring target ID outright, the only way to get to the good stuff was to pull everything else...

got a nice clear '35 buffalo and a weird copper tag thing, I thought probably an award...turned out later to be 1910 Boat Permit for Grand Resivoir, Ohio...VERY, VERY cool.

this one spot had a bunch of large mixed singnals, starting working to pull it apart, iron nail, iron nail, pull tab, bottle cap, and on and on...finally this MONSTER slab of silver appears in the ground. No clue what this thing is, but it's obivously been run over and torn from a much larger object. Bottom in engraved with a name and very small lettering at the bottom says "sterling 925 fine." Weighs 1.88 OUNCES...pretty sure this is the largest solid silver object I've ever found.

Oh also got neat tag "U.S. Map Co. Cinnicinati, Ohio" Just a WILD place that still has more to give :-)

 

[jorge del norte]

i like big silver i cannot lie........

 

[pistol perfect]

That is a really cool silver piece!!!!!!

 

[sparkymaster]

Very nice finds!

I realy like that boat permit.

sparkymaster

 

[diamondjim]

The boat permit and post tag are cool. A big chunk of silver something in amongst the iron sounds interesting.

It sounds like you are in a trash pit.

most of this city is a trash pit...but in this case, site has a thick layer of bum trash concealing FAR more interesting stuff underneath

 

[EDDE]

silver is always super duper terrific

 

[creeper71]

My guess for the sterling would be a Rose repousse vase possible Kirk &son or Wallace as the maker...... To bad it is tore up..cause there worth a good bit if in good condition

 

[Detectingfreak]

nice job on the big silver! Looks like your clearing out the trash for the really nice finds that come later on!

 

[ringfinder]

Nice bunch of finds. I have one of those boat permits also. I found it in a lake near me. A few of my friends
also found the same permits. A couple of them sold theirs and got $25 for them.

Thanks for showing us your finds. If you want I'll send a pic of my boat permit. It says 1910 Boat permit , Indian Lake, Ohio on it. Pretty neat find!

HH, Ringfinder