tinpan
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Steelheadwill's eye for detail helps id "Queen Victoria Jubilee Shilling Fob"
Hi all, Got up 5am on Sunday morning and went for an 80 mile drive over the border to river country.A mate i use to work with ,had resently brought a small farm and has retired. Lucky dude. I still have 20 years of work to go, unless i get rich. That won,t happen. LOL Took a while to get there because the location is off the main highway , had a few stoppages. Live stock crossings, yes the old farmer has all day but i don,t. Seemed like for ever to get a 100 head of cattle off the road. Decided we needed a break so stopped at a small town bakery for some food. Fresh crusty rolls with dashing of butter and strong black coffee. None of that modern bubble milk muck.
Finally got too the farm about 7.30am . stopped for a chat for a while to get directions to an old sports ground and club house. Before the mid- 1950's the site was the local hub of activity, numerous sports were played in the location. Aussie rules football, netball, tennis and others. When cars became more affordable people could travel this was end to these small towns in some ways. As the number of people left the local sports grounds were no longer used. Over time the local farmers salvaged what they could use and the site fell into ruin. Then the native trees took over the oval and tennis court.Not much to see today just a half treed feild.
The area was settled in the late 1860's and relied on river boats and then the railway . All gone now. The day started of slowly .targets and targets. Yep the old evil of the modern pull tab. Crown seal caps off the long neck bottles. I was surprised at the the age of some pottery shards and glass at one end of the site. Shards like willow doulton. Figured i work threw this end of the site. Nothing special just common early 20th century coppers. Then a small silver 3d ok .Queen side up and turned it over . writting. Sweet heart coin with "Susie Aug 1896". Thats only the 3rd one of these i ever found. Next find was a late 19th century fob watch chain .Couldn,t find the end tho.
We stopped for for an hour and sat in the shade. Stuffed down a sandwich and cold drink. I knew the full heat of the day would be apon us in a couple hours so. Jumped back into the hunt. I decided to hunt the area around there the club house was. Hour of rubbish and i was getting to back of the site. I stuck my coil round the back of the an old tree .Gee did it scream .In the grass near by lay this old trophy. Ok nothing special. Till i picked it up.Thought gee this has some weight in it. Didn,t think twice about it. More worried about getting home safely.Cleaned up my 2 other finds and was quite happy with what i had found for the first trip. Today after i got home from work it was too hot to do anything so i thought i would have a look at the old trophy. I knew that it was from the 1950's and was more than lightly be silver plated. Well did i get a shock of my life. First above the front side figure theres a 2 mm grove where the trophy had been dropped at some stage. Cleaned a bit and i could only see more silver. With a bit of effort got half cleaned. Sure enough under the wreath on the bottom is the "Stokes". Stokes and sons are silver smiths and medal makers since 1860.I thought i would put on the scales and see how much the trophy weighed. 97 grams thats well over 3 ozs.
UP DATE After reading steelheadwill's reply to my post i did some checking and posted on another site and with minutes got a reply. The reply said" What you have there is a Queen Victoria Jubilee Silver Shilling Fob" You missing the shilling but that easy replaced The chain on the other hand would be considered scarce. Nice.
There are silver hallmarks on clasp and on the larger silver rings but mosy are barely visable . Well worn.Big thanks Will for your input , i would have never thought about it.
tinpan
Hi all, Got up 5am on Sunday morning and went for an 80 mile drive over the border to river country.A mate i use to work with ,had resently brought a small farm and has retired. Lucky dude. I still have 20 years of work to go, unless i get rich. That won,t happen. LOL Took a while to get there because the location is off the main highway , had a few stoppages. Live stock crossings, yes the old farmer has all day but i don,t. Seemed like for ever to get a 100 head of cattle off the road. Decided we needed a break so stopped at a small town bakery for some food. Fresh crusty rolls with dashing of butter and strong black coffee. None of that modern bubble milk muck.
Finally got too the farm about 7.30am . stopped for a chat for a while to get directions to an old sports ground and club house. Before the mid- 1950's the site was the local hub of activity, numerous sports were played in the location. Aussie rules football, netball, tennis and others. When cars became more affordable people could travel this was end to these small towns in some ways. As the number of people left the local sports grounds were no longer used. Over time the local farmers salvaged what they could use and the site fell into ruin. Then the native trees took over the oval and tennis court.Not much to see today just a half treed feild.
The area was settled in the late 1860's and relied on river boats and then the railway . All gone now. The day started of slowly .targets and targets. Yep the old evil of the modern pull tab. Crown seal caps off the long neck bottles. I was surprised at the the age of some pottery shards and glass at one end of the site. Shards like willow doulton. Figured i work threw this end of the site. Nothing special just common early 20th century coppers. Then a small silver 3d ok .Queen side up and turned it over . writting. Sweet heart coin with "Susie Aug 1896". Thats only the 3rd one of these i ever found. Next find was a late 19th century fob watch chain .Couldn,t find the end tho.
We stopped for for an hour and sat in the shade. Stuffed down a sandwich and cold drink. I knew the full heat of the day would be apon us in a couple hours so. Jumped back into the hunt. I decided to hunt the area around there the club house was. Hour of rubbish and i was getting to back of the site. I stuck my coil round the back of the an old tree .Gee did it scream .In the grass near by lay this old trophy. Ok nothing special. Till i picked it up.Thought gee this has some weight in it. Didn,t think twice about it. More worried about getting home safely.Cleaned up my 2 other finds and was quite happy with what i had found for the first trip. Today after i got home from work it was too hot to do anything so i thought i would have a look at the old trophy. I knew that it was from the 1950's and was more than lightly be silver plated. Well did i get a shock of my life. First above the front side figure theres a 2 mm grove where the trophy had been dropped at some stage. Cleaned a bit and i could only see more silver. With a bit of effort got half cleaned. Sure enough under the wreath on the bottom is the "Stokes". Stokes and sons are silver smiths and medal makers since 1860.I thought i would put on the scales and see how much the trophy weighed. 97 grams thats well over 3 ozs.
UP DATE After reading steelheadwill's reply to my post i did some checking and posted on another site and with minutes got a reply. The reply said" What you have there is a Queen Victoria Jubilee Silver Shilling Fob" You missing the shilling but that easy replaced The chain on the other hand would be considered scarce. Nice.
There are silver hallmarks on clasp and on the larger silver rings but mosy are barely visable . Well worn.Big thanks Will for your input , i would have never thought about it.
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, tinpan I feel that way about work too - but I often need to remind myself ....really we are already rich - beaut small population country, a bakery in every town and opportunity 
coin i've seen..
