On Sunday, the weather had warmed up enough for me to head back to the site where I’ve been finding the British Military hardware. I hunted here for 2.5hrs and made some interesting finds! My first find was a sterling silver spoon bowl & shaft marked “Sterling Pat 1891 Mermod.Jaccard.Co.” Then not 10’ from where I found the spoon bowl I found a sterling silver spoon handle inscribed ‘M’ and stamped “J. G. J. & Co”. Through online research, I was able to discover that this spoon was imported from England and sold in Toronto from 1830 – 60. Unfortunately, these two pieces are not a match, which hopefully means there are at least two more pieces of silver out here!
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I'd like to get back for another hunt this week as the temperatures are predicted to stay above freezing, but this also makes for very muddy work. I also included a picture of all the aluminum trash I dug in the 80 – 81 range, this is the reason why I found the ‘coin silver’ spoons that also hit in the same range!
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Thanks for looking and hope you all have a great Thanksgiving weekend,
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Dave
PS. Here are a couple of pics of the spoons after 4hrs of tumbling.
I'm thinking about making the shaft of the 'decorated spoon' into a ring for my 11 year old daughter.
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