Not a bad day. First real jewelry.

1996 · Dec 30, 2008

Wanted to go to a park about 15 minutes from here, but couldn't talk pop into bringing me there and then coming back to pick me up. I decided to go check under the bleachers at the high school football field, here in town. I thought that there were big gaps in the floor of the bleachers that would be perfect for people loosing stuff. The gaps were really small. Like only an inch wide, and there was plenty of room that if anybody dropped anything, it would have to go like 3 feet to make it to the gap. I decided to check anyway, but there was about 6 inches of water in the first two cubby holes. I figured I would just come back another day with some rubber boots, but the third cubby hole was just about dry. The hunting conditions were less than desirable in most spots under the bleachers, but I fought my way through a few of them for a couple of hours. After about thirty minutes of digging through all of the candy wrappers and such, I got another beep on the old ace 250. The quarters were so cramped that I wasn't even looking to see what most of the readings were, but right there on the surface (kind of fuzzy, don't reall remember) was a little piece of metal. I pulled it out, and it is a pretty heavy 9 inch bracelet. I saw black and figured plated, but I looked real close and couldn't see any numbers on it, but it was stamped ITALY. It seemed like I remembered ITALY being a good stamp on silver, but I was still positive it was another piece to add to my slowly growing fake jewelry collection. I looked for another couple of hours and onl found a couple more dimes and pennies. Dad showed up to pick me up right about dusk, and he asked me once again if I had struck it rich ( he didn't mention gold(like he always does) for some reason). I wasn't even going to mention the bracelet, but I whipped it out an way, and said something like "it would be nice if it was real" but I was 95 % sure it wasn't. Got it home, cleaned it up, and sure enough, ".925" stamped on it bigger than dallas.
It's not gold, but I'm pretty stoked about hitting another milestone.
Thanks for all of the encouragement!

16.7 grams, .925 Silver