Lead fishing weight

flyadive

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Found in NJ along a river bank, do you think it's a home made fishing weight casted from a spoon ? Or could it have been an indian necklace.
It is lead and flat on one side , spoon shape on the other.

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Jason in Enid

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I think you nailed the ID. Looks like a homemade lead fishing weight, using a spoon as the mold.
 

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I have found lots of these in the lake bed, well where the lake used to be before the drought. Yours looks like it was spoon cast weight. the factory ones like that usually have a little hump on the bottom on both sides. I have found many of those of different sizes. I usually melt them down or throw them into a bucket to be recycled.
 

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