Todays Sterling Silver Finds

[UnderMiner]

Today's Sterling Silver Finds

This evening I spotted a house with lots of junk outside from a clean-out (lots of these lately). Still looking through some of what I picked up, there's so much stuff!
In a bag with some costume jewelry I just found these four nice pieces of sterling jewelry!
Three sterling silver bracelets and a sterling necklace that matches one of the bracelets! So cool!



Couple of the sterling stamps:


In total the weight is at 55.6 grams of Sterling jewelry (without the beads, probably around 35-40 grams) I'm happy with this :

 

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[cjon455]

awesome stuff, id be interested in seeing a big pic of all your finds, or wont it fit all in one pic lol!

 

[46Wheat]

You continue to amaze with your finds from stuff that people throw away

 

[sutphin]

SAYYYYYYYYYYY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

 

[deershed]

No need to swing when you can pick it up at the curb. Lol

Love seeing these finds.

 

[UnderMiner]

SAYYYYYYYYYYY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

It's called "trash raiding", it's easy to do if you live in a big city. Houses get sold, apartments get rented, and all the stuff gets thrown away. Take it all and look through it and you'll find treasure.
Some of my best trash finds from this year include a hoard of silver coins, nearly an ounce of gold jewelry, and a US Civil War Staff Officer's sword just to name a few (I find stuff like this every single week like clockwork).
All from the curbs of NYC; it's sometimes more lucrative than metal detecting (but I'm starting to think my finds are exclusive to the richer parts of the NYC area only):

 

[thrifty76now]

You made a great score on somebodies mistake.Good pickins.

 

[Brother Al]

I love seeing all this great stuff you find ! I'm also regretting no longer living there as I used to find great stuff at the curb near you years ago...Do you ever wonder, as I did, about our country..... Our society that just discards so many valuable items? Glad your saving what you do...God bless...

 

[UnderMiner]

I love seeing all this great stuff you find ! I'm also regretting no longer living there as I used to find great stuff at the curb near you years ago...Do you ever wonder, as I did, about our country..... Our society that just discards so many valuable items? Glad your saving what you do...God bless...

It keeps me up at night sometimes. Knowing that every night more likely than not an entire life's fortune has been collectively disposed of (in NYC alone), and despite all the nice things I save they are just the tip of a massive iceberg of valuable things that are now lost forever. What gets me upset is that most of the things our society throws away nowadays work just fine or have just something very slightly wrong with them that can be easily fixed. We have become a throwaway society, sacrificing quality for cost, beauty for functionality, and our environment for convenience. One day we will need to mine our own landfills for resources. People have become mindless drones who live for nothing more than acquiring the next new gadget (while concurrently disposing of the previous one even if it still works).

 

[cjon455]

It keeps me up at night sometimes. Knowing that every night more likely than not an entire life's fortune has been collectively disposed of (in NYC alone), and despite all the nice things I save they are just the tip of a massive iceberg of valuable things that are now lost forever. What gets me upset is that most of the things our society throws away nowadays work just fine or have just something very slightly wrong with them that can be easily fixed. We have become a throwaway society, sacrificing quality for cost, beauty for functionality, and our environment for convenience. One day we will need to mine our own landfills for resources. People have become mindless drones who live for nothing more than acquiring the next new gadget (while concurrently disposing of the previous one even if it still works).

well said, definitely well said.

in the meantime you just keep
reaping the rewards!

 

[ARC]

Is the sword a C. ROBY ?
No scabbard ?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

You are the man!
Love the look of the US CW Staff Officer's Sword... amazing what some folks consider to be trash!

Dave

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice saves.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Super cool score! They bag it up or ya to take!

That used to happen here too till they passed trash regulations and limits.

 

[UnderMiner]

Is the sword a C. ROBY ?
No scabbard ?

It's German-made. W CLAUBERG SOLINGEN
Made around 1855. Looked for a long time but never found the scabbard.