Thin Silver from Millsite

steelheadwill · Jul 17, 2011

Digging out a lot of 'regular' stuff from a site that started off very promising.
(17th C buckle & Quartz Point)
Most interesting is the thin sterling band, no idea what it was for, cigar band? :help:

Lead/pewter button with gilt (or brass layer?) intact, no features except border left.
8" X 10" floral embossed brass sheet, has an attachment piece/clasp,
Victorian book cover ?
cuff size 1 piece eagle, and a big tombac button, jumbo intact compact...
Better days are comin, I can feel it :wink:

HH all

aquachigger · Jul 17, 2011

Those are really cool finds. I love the shiny brass. It always gets the heart to pumping when your pulling it out of the water like that.

prolab69 · Jul 17, 2011

hey!! leave some for the next guy!! :laughing9:

thats alot of digging :thumbsup:

Usually when I find A mill site thats the kind of stuff thats piled up next to A tree from prior hunters. Good score on the silver band.

NOLA_Ken · Jul 17, 2011

I really like the brass plates and clock guts! Cool stuff! :icon_thumleft:

steelheadwill · Jul 17, 2011

prolab69 said:
hey!! leave some for the next guy!! thats alot of digging Usually when I find A mill site thats the kind of stuff thats piled up next to A tree from prior hunters. Good score on the silver band.

Thanks,
You notice most stuff didn't make it into the house :laughing7:

TommNJ · Jul 17, 2011

Cool Finds! :icon_thumright:

I recently found a latch like yours in the 1st pic bottom left maybe from a old trunk ?

TommNJ

{Sentinel} · Jul 17, 2011

Nice finds SHW. :icon_thumleft:

That piece of sterling Silver is from Birmingham, England. If you could tell me what the last letter is on the Cartouche I could identify the year....I cannot quite make it out, it looks like a capital "B" but I'm not exactly sure. From the style of the shield that the letter is within it looks like the date will range somewhere in the 20th century.

Here's another example of your citymark from Birmingham, England which is the Anchor and Lion (The one below is from the year 1900 as denoted by the style shield with lowercase "a"):

HISPAN · Jul 17, 2011

Pretty floral decoration ..... congrats! :thumbsup:

H

worldtalker · Jul 17, 2011

steelheadwill said:
prolab69 said:

hey!! leave some for the next guy!! thats alot of digging Usually when I find A mill site thats the kind of stuff thats piled up next to A tree from prior hunters. Good score on the silver band.

Click to expand...

Thanks,
You notice most stuff didn't make it into the house

steeleheadwil,Know what ya mean,my wife keeps tellin me I got to much stuff layin around,dang, Early 1700's is NICE STUFF!!!!Man you boys got some Prime Spots up there,Always enjoy what you find!God Bless,Chris HH

ModernMiner · Jul 17, 2011

Herbie,
You got a few great display pieces there that would make my day. That floral design piece and this one are nice finds in my book.
Congrats,
Doug

JW15 · Jul 17, 2011

Great finds and great job cleaning that pocketknife! :icon_thumright:

I'm sure better days will come sooner that later for you! :thumbsup:

olekyground · Jul 17, 2011

Good finds!! I would save all the brass I find!!

Wallhangers · Jul 18, 2011

More interesting finds. Are you able to get out in this heat or are you babysitting kittens now?

High Plains Digger · Jul 18, 2011

I can use those two lamp screw-in ringie things. Would you like my mailing address?

steelheadwill · Jul 19, 2011

High Plains Digger said:
I can use those two lamp screw-in ringie things. Would you like my mailing address?

Thanks All!
High Plains, send me a PM,
olekyground,
I Got a load of brass ready for the scrapyard, over 200lb since January...
All just bits & pieces, nothing with markings or IDs.
Wallhangers,
I'm diggin, workin, sweating and babysitting one Kitten, momma decided to take off for a 30 hour party the other day, Here's Lucy & her boy Vincent.
Thanks for that Tshirt, Love it ! Glad to hear business is good :wink:

HH all

steelheadwill · Jul 19, 2011

{Sentinel} said:
Nice finds SHW. That piece of sterling Silver is from Birmingham, England. If you could tell me what the last letter is on the Cartouche I could identify the year....I cannot quite make it out, it looks like a capital "B" but I'm not exactly sure. From the style of the shield that the letter is within it looks like the date will range somewhere in the 20th century.

Here's another example of your citymark from Birmingham, England which is the Anchor and Lion (The one below is from the year 1900 as denoted by the style shield with lowercase "a"):

great stuff Sentinel

Thanks to your info I was able to ID that piece as an 'Arturo Fuentes' Cigar band from 1925 :hello2:

(uppercase A in upsidedown shield)
They still use sterling bands on some of their cigars.
Best digs to You! :thumbsup:

Another ID, the 'Fitz' item is a piece of tinkers solder used to repair pots & stuff.
The patches are an often found item for me..

diggerfororo · Jul 19, 2011

{Sentinel} said:
Nice finds SHW. That piece of sterling Silver is from Birmingham, England. If you could tell me what the last letter is on the Cartouche I could identify the year....I cannot quite make it out, it looks like a capital "B" but I'm not exactly sure. From the style of the shield that the letter is within it looks like the date will range somewhere in the 20th century.

Here's another example of your citymark from Birmingham, England which is the Anchor and Lion (The one below is from the year 1900 as denoted by the style shield with lowercase "a"):

Nice (stuff) If the date letter is "B" it will be 1926. with that style of stamp. I havee found several strips like yours and always thought they might be a band for a cane or parasall

Les