SilverSpoon ring found over the weekend

[diggummup]

I found this ring over the weekend up in/near avon park/sebring area in the yard of a house that dates to around 1910 which is old for south central florida standards.Inside is marked 1847 rogers bros. (It's not from 1847 that's just the makers mark I believe)next to that it says triple,maybe short for triple plate?You can see plier marks inside the ring where it was held to bend I guess.I call it a spoon ring but it could just as easily have come from a fork or knife I reckon.I can't tell if it's plated or not.There are several deep grooves or dings in it but it looks solid through and through.I also found 2 wheaties-41 and 25,1-54 silver dime and .27 in clad.Also found was a piece of wrought iron,which looks like a broken drill bit,however the top portion where it would have been broken at is mushroomed as if somebody had been hitting it with a hammer.Don't really know for sure what it is.Last but not least is a piece of unidentifiable metal slag i'm not sure,I will post pics of it in "What is it?"So overall it was a pretty good weekend.Oh yeah,my best find this weekend was a CSA stamped bowie knife that I got at a flea market in Lake Placid on the way to my friends house in/around avon park/sebring.I got it for $25.00.I'll post a pic of it in "everything else"under freetodetect's thread "yard sale treasures".Thanks for looking,H.H.-diggummup

 

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[49er]

Back in the late sixties I used to shop at the thrift stores for old silverware and make rings out of the tops. Only I used a rawhide mallet to form mine. Great find tho. and yes it does look like an old drill bit.

 

[lonewolfe]

That's a "spoon ring"

Rogers is the silverware maker.

Nice find.

HH

Lonewolfe

 

[Monty]

That old bit was probably twisted off. When twisted in two the shank tends to form a mushroom shape. Nice ring, looks like sterling.

 

[SilverDreams]

Nice ring!

 

[Zeke]

Yep........thats a spoon ring. A spoon ring was my first silver ring find. Found it at an old homesite on a night hunt.......

yes I had permission and I had to go at night cause I was working long hours and it was in the winter time so it was dark when I went in and dark when I got off so I HAD to go at night....whewwww!!!

Anyway.....Nice ring diggummup

Heres a pic of mine......

 

[allen]

neat looking ring

 

[JARMAN]

Some nice finds,like the ring.HH

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

Nice spoon ring, I have yet to find one!!!

 

[Kent in AL]

Cool! I forgot about spoon rings. Seems they were big when I was in junior high or somewhere in that period ... just before the Ice Age.

Kent

 

[mtl-huntr]

Nice finds....Hey Zeke... Is that a locket?.... does it open up?....anything inside?.....

 

[surfrat96]

Cool lookin ring! Nice find!

 

[Jason in TN]

Nice ring any ring is cool a old silver spoon ring is very cool.

 

[Zeke]

Nice finds....Hey Zeke... Is that a locket?.... does it open up?....anything inside?.....

Yeah its a locket mtl-huntr.

It opens but there was nothing inside but mud.