More Campsite Spoons and Clues (Plus a fork)

[Keith123]

Made it back to the campsite to see how many more spoons I could find. As no surprise, I found a few spoons and a fork. More interestingly I found a couple of items that many date the campsite and tell me who camped here. The first dig at the campsite was a coin spill. 1916 Buff, 1899 IH, 1917 Merc, and 1911 Barber dime. Good start! Shortly there after a s small sterling bowl with a handle turned up. Maybe a candle holder? This was a cool find because the first thing that came out of the whole was a couple pieces of broken file. I knew it had a high probability of being iron cause I heard the squeak/grunt. Deus users know what I'm talking about. When I rescanned the whole the grunt was gone but the squeak was still there. A couple inches from under the file, out popped this beautiful sterling object (any idea on date?). As I was working the heavy iron, I got another squeak/grunt. This time lots of nails were hiding a military button, 1899 barber dime and some neat looking blue glass (military button is about the size of a nickel). I think after coins dating to the turn of the century and a military button, my vote is pre WWI military campsite.

 

[OWK]

You silver bowl with the turned up handle, is a tea caddy spoon.

 

[qaela4]

Great variety of coins. Love the silver tea caddy, the engraving is awesome. Great padlock and silverware as well.

 

[deepsecrets]

The sailboat on your caddy looks like a Dutch

Speeljacht - possibly made in Holland - mid 1800's. Can you make out any of the hallmarks?
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[Keith123]

The sailboat on your caddy looks like a Dutch

Speeljacht - possibly made in Holland - mid 1800's. Can you make out any of the hallmarks?​

Looks like it says R10 and some other symbol

 

[deepsecrets]

Is the "R" uppercase or lower case?

 

[Keith123]

Is the "R" uppercase or lower case?

Upper

 

[deepsecrets]

If it is Dutch, the symbol is a sword indicating .833 silver and date between 1814-1905, the R10 indicates 1851.