Three Day Hunt – STERLING Spoon, Coins, and an Egyptian God!

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This is a site I first received permission to detect last year. I’ve been waiting patiently for the fall wheat to be cut, so last week when I saw the farmer making straw bales, I headed out to the field at 5:30am last Friday. This field was certainly a test of my arm strength dealing with 4 – 5” wheat stubble. My first find was the 1904 Canadian LC, which was followed by the 1852 Upper Canada One Penny Token. I headed back early on Saturday morning finding the field full of Canada Geese feeding on the leftover wheat. Almost immediately I found the Northumbria ‘STERLING’ Silver Spoon. In all honesty, it was so dirty I thought it was just another brass spoon, that is until I got it home and washed it today. In 10 years of detecting, this is my first complete solid silver piece of cutlery. I headed back again on Sunday and found the Egyptian Pendant. I have no idea when this piece dates from, but I’m thinking between 1900 – 1920. I have no idea what the round chrome disc is from either, I was thinking maybe part of a truck’s hubcap?

Thanks very much for looking,
Dave

 

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Had another look at this.

How come your coppers come out so nice!?

 

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Very nice hunt. Looks like you had a lot of fun. Very well documented. Super cool photos to share. I love the 1953 dog tag. It seems to fit the time line with the pattern in the silverware being discontinued in the 50’s was there an old homestead before or was this a former dumping area in the 50’s before it was farmed.

Cheers

Thank you very much for your post and for your compliments WS.

In answer to your question, there was a homestead here from 1840 - 80. A second house was built about 100' east of the original structure sometime around 1910, along with a small barn and silo.
These last wooden frame buildings were knocked down in the late-1950s to turn the site back to farmland.

Love your Wayne Gretzky saying, I met his Dad years ago when I played minor hockey in Brantford, ON.

Best of luck to you in Washington State,
Dave

Had another look at this.

How come your coppers come out so nice!?

Good morning Cru,

Years ago I purchased a variable speed bench-mounted grinder/polisher and have it outfitted with a fine brass wire wheel and a cloth buffing wheel. I've become fairly proficient in being able to remove the surface corrosion from brass and copper with the wire wheel without taking it down to the bare metal. I most cases, depending on the condition of the metals surface, I'm able to remove the surface damage yet leave the patina/verdigris in tact.

I then use a Conservators Wax to even out the colour of the metals surface/ I let it dry and then hit it with the buffing wheel.

Thanks for your question, hope you and your Dad are both well these days.
Dave