Silver Bracelet found July 3rd (so its "the other days finds")

[McClod]

Finally I find something worth posting about! I was out on July 3rd with a couple of friends hunting an old school thats been pounded by us locals and got some signals on my CTX that bounced from silver numbers to all kinds of other numbers, lots of junk in the area but it was not consistently a silver TID like rings normally give me.

It was only 3 inches down so I dug it and was quite surprised to see this shiny silver bracelet pop out. The odd thing is, I could find no .925 or Sterling markings on it, but it definitely came out of the ground like a silver coin, shiny with no corrosion, tested it with a magnet and its nonmagnetic and it has that nice silver sound we love to hear with I mingled it with a silver coin. It weighed 1 ounce exactly on my scale.

I was very happy to see this since I've been on a silver slump for awhile now, and it has a nice design on it. IF anyone out there happens to know anything about the type of design, or why a silver bracelet wouldn't have a marking on it I'd be happy to know. I have heard that some older jewelry may not have a sterling or 925 on it. Anyway thanks for looking, and I know this forum is "Todays finds" but I couldn't post it with pictures from my cell phone and have been having trouble with the computers.

We have been having quite a hot spell here in Oregon the last 10 days so I haven't been out much lately but hope to get out more soon and hopefully have something cool to post again! GL & HH everyone!

The silver quarter was just used for size comparison and was not found on this hunt. I had cleaned the bracelet trying to find a 925 or sterling, anything that states as fact its SILVER, but I am completely sure it is, although I have not had it tested.

 

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[park pirate]

Nice..

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Great find! Congrats! It sure looks like silver!

There was some kind of test having to do with cold & silver, it's been posted before, I can't remember where it was on here.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on the bracelet, glad to see you post some finds. Isn't this a great hobby?

 

[46Wheat]

Nice piece of shiny there

 

[UnderMiner]

One way to tell if it's silver is to spit on it a little and then rub that area with aluminum foil.
If it smells like rotten eggs then it's real silver.
This works becasue silver tarnish reacts with aluminum to form aluminum oxide and hydrogen sulfide.
Spit acts as an electrolyte to allow the reaction.

 

[sutphin]

DANG NICE BRACELET .

 

[Erik in NJ]

Very nice bracelet! I cleaned badly tarnished old silver coins in England like my William III love token with the aluminum foil trick, but I just used plain tap water. I think the silver needs to be tarnished. Push the foil down against the silver with your finger--best to use a thin foil. It will get warm and smell like rotten eggs. It'll remove the tarnish if there is any quite well. I forgot about this trick.

 

[McClod]

Congrats on the bracelet, glad to see you post some finds. Isn't this a great hobby?

Thank you Loco-Digger! Yes, this hobby is great! Better still now that I finally got a T handle lesche sampson 31 inch shovel!

Undermine and Erik in NJ, Thanks to both of you for the great tip on how to tell if an item is silver, I'll try it out!

Thanks everyone for looking, and I sure appreciate everyone's comments!! HH & GL!

 

[McClod]

Great find! Congrats! It sure looks like silver!

There was some kind of test having to do with cold & silver, it's been posted before, I can't remember where it was on here.

Thank you Msbeepbeep, I'll search to see if I can find it, maybe it's similar to the method mentioned here. Thank you for your comments!