Silver, Gold and . . .

Cal_Cobra

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Mark and I were back at it at the camp today, we spent the first couple of hours clearing another area to hunt. Today was a back breaker :tongue3: but we got it done.

My first target was a funky gold plated cuff link, I thought it was an odd thing to find there. A few minutes later I got a nice sounding nickle to pull-tab'ish bouncer, and to my astonishment out came a nice mens ring. I wasn't sure if it was real or not as I couldn't see a mark on it, but Mark kept telling me it was. When I got it home and washed the dirt off, sure enough, it's marked MIA10K :headbang: No idea what the stone is, perhaps a garnet, but it looks like it's pretty old, maybe Victorian :icon_scratch:

After the ring, it was all down hill for me in the area we cleared, so I decided to freewheel it through the weeds and overgrowth. I ended up finding a nice Westmoreland Sterling silver spoon in the thick. A bit later I was under a tree digging up quite a few wheats and finally silver'd with a merc :thumbsup: I also found a neat 1955 Richmond dog-tax tag, a Mexican 20 centavos coin, and not far from that another ring, unfortunately this one was a gold plated junker :violent1:

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The merc makes silver coin #33 towards my goal of 40 by 4/19 :hello2:

Thanks for looking and HH,
Brian
 

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Looks like you will make your 40 silver by the en of the month. Congs on the great spot......Matt
 

Nice,

That ring is a beauty. I have one very similar. Looks 1940's 1950's.

HH Jer
 

I sure do love those dog tax tags! I have never found one, but I sure want too!
 

Great finds. But that ring appears to say "MA 10k" not MAI10k. Maybe MA is the maker.
SKD
 

Thanks everyone. We're heading back there today to clear another spot, but the spots are getting harder to clear (BIG back breaker fallen trees and limbs :whip2:).

SoreKneesDayton said:
Great finds. But that ring appears to say "MA 10k" not MAI10k. Maybe MA is the maker.
SKD

Good eye there SKD, I'll see if I can find anything on google about "MA" as the maker.

Thanks and HH,
Brian
 

Nice ring, I found one just about like that 47 years ago & my brother took it away from me. He said it didn't fit me so it was his, I have not seen it since.
 

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