My first old spoon

[allison86]

This was about 8 inches deep I am guessing it's from the 20s or 30s

 

[trapperart]

Congrats I'm sure there will be more

 

[digger dad]

Good job if there is a spoon there will be more treasures !! Good luck !

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your first old spoon. Give it a little wipe with some olive oil, then wipe it dry and watch the design come out. It just gives it a nice look. I do that with all of my old table ware finds.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the relic, bet it will clean up nicely!

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Nice find!..should clean up nicely, so please post some "after" pics! Makes me wonder...just why 9 out of 10 of my silverware finds are spoons...but looking back, I can remember dragging a spoon out into the yard to dig for "buried treasure"...too many pirate movies I guess..lol..thx for sharing, looking forward to the cleaned up version...ddf

 

[Rustic]

Nice spoon, I bet there's more where that came from, too.

The reason I especially love finding spoons is that I remember how as a young mother, I often handed my toddler son a spoon from the utensil drawer and pointed him towards a patch of dirt to play.

Although most made it back into the kitchen, I guarantee some are still lurking in the dirt behind the house to be found by some future detectorist.

So whenever I pull a spoon out while detecting, I imagine it in the busy hands of some beautiful toddler 100 years ago...

 

[atomicscott]

Congrats! I have about 5-6 old spoons and knives from the same era! Always fun to imagine what that spoon has seen.

 

[itzyoboyandrew]

My oldest spoon was like.. 1911? it took me days but i tracked down the exact design on a website.

 

[allison86]

Dose anybody know how old is a nickle silver spoon ? That's what kind of spoon I found

 

[itzyoboyandrew]

Dose anybody know how old is a nickle silver spoon ? That's what kind of spoon I found

i found one recently i think, it was 30s-40s? will have to double check

 

[allison86]

It says nickle silver on the back