UnderMiner
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- Jul 27, 2014
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I woke up late today, because I was up until 4AM posting various nonsense on online forums, but I decided to look for treasure before going to work anyway. I had 1 hour so no time to dig in the low tide mud, detect the local dirt, or rummage at the thrift stores because all these things took too long, I had one place that I knew I could get to and be in and out with time to still get to work - the garbage dump. The garbage dump had not produced any treasure for me all month, so I looked at my watch - it was September 14th, two weeks of no treasure at the dump - statistically I probably will find some today I thought...
So I went to the dump and began digging through the junk piles - after 15 minutes I uncovered 12 pieces of weighted Sterling Silver tableware including: 6 candle holders, 3 salt & pepper shakers, a creamer and sugar bowl set, and a very nice candy dish - my favorite find in the hoard, I also scored a very nice Gorham silver-plated tea pot. My buddy who runs a demo company later said a young lady had dumped all the contents of her parent's house there and there were "antiques and stuff up in there", well that would explain where all this treasure came from - not the smartest lady. I know I didn't find all of it as there is alot buried under other worthless stuff.
I began filling this small paper bag with treasure but it was not big enough so I ended up using a 5 gallon bucket instead.
I chucked all the treasure in a 5 gallon bucket and took it home, cleaned and photographed, and then went to work. A few weeks back I had found a really nice treasure box in the garbage someone threw away, this one hoard was able to fit inside it perfectly and it is the same one in the attached photos.
The Sterling stamp on the candy dish, similar to all the others:
So I went to the dump and began digging through the junk piles - after 15 minutes I uncovered 12 pieces of weighted Sterling Silver tableware including: 6 candle holders, 3 salt & pepper shakers, a creamer and sugar bowl set, and a very nice candy dish - my favorite find in the hoard, I also scored a very nice Gorham silver-plated tea pot. My buddy who runs a demo company later said a young lady had dumped all the contents of her parent's house there and there were "antiques and stuff up in there", well that would explain where all this treasure came from - not the smartest lady. I know I didn't find all of it as there is alot buried under other worthless stuff.
I began filling this small paper bag with treasure but it was not big enough so I ended up using a 5 gallon bucket instead.
I chucked all the treasure in a 5 gallon bucket and took it home, cleaned and photographed, and then went to work. A few weeks back I had found a really nice treasure box in the garbage someone threw away, this one hoard was able to fit inside it perfectly and it is the same one in the attached photos.
The Sterling stamp on the candy dish, similar to all the others:
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