Fourman110
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Needed to take a day off work (use it or lose it) so I ended up hitting about 10 spots today. I found a spoon that had me perplexed for awhile. It had a federalist union shield, anchor and the profile of a guy on it. It's pretty roached but I took another stab at finding a makers mark last night and discovered that there were words under the profile image that said "Captain..... ee". Then when looking at the bowl I noticed there was an image of a ship on it. I could barely make out USS Maine.... Looks like it's a commemorative spoon from the sinking of the USS Maine. Checking out Ebay, it looks like it was made by Standard (key words Spoon, Sigsbee, Maine). Nothing like a 100yr old souvenir to start your day. Also found the small shoe buckle and the handle to an old razor at the same place.
Most of the other places I hit only produced clad (OK, two wheat pennies and a 1952 nickel that looked like it was in really good shape for being 6 inches in the ground). Ended my day at an old park in town. I don't know what it is about this park in particular, but every time I'm there I find at least one interesting thing. In the past I've pulled an old 1880's ladies hair pin and a turn of the century tool tag. This time it lived up to it's uniqueness again, producing the kids cat ring (spayed out in the picture). It's probably from a gum-ball machine and not that old but interesting. Then I pulled the salt shaker top. It's kind of small , like the kind someone going on a picnic would bring. Finally, I found the lock-back knife. I bet it's blade's over 4 inches long, and I found it open. Sure glad I found it and not a kid.
Disappointed about not finding silver I headed home and cleaned everything up. Turns out the salt shaker top had writing on it. STERLING. What an odd way to break the slump.
Most of the other places I hit only produced clad (OK, two wheat pennies and a 1952 nickel that looked like it was in really good shape for being 6 inches in the ground). Ended my day at an old park in town. I don't know what it is about this park in particular, but every time I'm there I find at least one interesting thing. In the past I've pulled an old 1880's ladies hair pin and a turn of the century tool tag. This time it lived up to it's uniqueness again, producing the kids cat ring (spayed out in the picture). It's probably from a gum-ball machine and not that old but interesting. Then I pulled the salt shaker top. It's kind of small , like the kind someone going on a picnic would bring. Finally, I found the lock-back knife. I bet it's blade's over 4 inches long, and I found it open. Sure glad I found it and not a kid.
Disappointed about not finding silver I headed home and cleaned everything up. Turns out the salt shaker top had writing on it. STERLING. What an odd way to break the slump.
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