Three more hunts with the ATPro

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Condensed these three hunts to one post. Raining allot here and chilly, got soaked a couple of times. Anyway on to the finds!

Junkite of course.

Coinage. First picture is 2 hunts. Second is third hunt. Third is what appears to be a copper, hallmarked fork. Found it on 1st hunt.

Hallmarks on the fork. Still trying to clean the gunk out of the hallmarks so I can read them. If anyone has info on copper hallmarks please let me know. I cannot find anything online about it.

Nickle Silver spoon made in Sheffield England. Date unknown.

1953 King George VI penny. Front in worse condition.

Possible fur trade copper bracelet. Need info! It's a simple large copper hoop with crude hash markings all the way around.

Great seal of Oklanoma button 1907. Yea it's misspelled, it is on any of these you find. Missing the backing for the button. In very bad condition too.

1986 Expo pin. Westcoast Snowboards button. Junk jewelery penguin.

Broken aluminum junk jewelery pieces.

And that's it for last weeks hunts. Hope to get out today to a skatepark, lotta grass around it. Hoping for battery money!

GL & HH all!!

 

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[rebeljim52]

This is a good hallmark site
http://www.925-1000.com/silverglossary.html
http://www.oldcopper.org/list.htm

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

This is a good hallmark site
http://www.925-1000.com/silverglossary.html
http://www.oldcopper.org/list.htm

Tried those, nothing listed. Gonna have to post to their forums and cross my fingers. Still no reply on the silver pendant maker on those silver sites.

 

[RiverRat3]

Neat finds!

 

[kleinerschmitter]

Sweet finds, looks like a 1932 King George Penny to me though

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Sweet finds, looks like a 1932 King George Penny to me though

Nope it's 1952, 1932 would be George V and no maple leaves.

 

[ossi]

ossi

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Man, I thought that was silver. Still a nice find, it must have been plated at one time.
ZDD

 

[Sonnydigs]

That was a nice days find.. Those AT Pros sure seem to find lots of targets.. Santa may have to bring me one..

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very interesting finds GC!
I really like this copper, hallmarked fork!

HH, Dave

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Very interesting finds GC!
I really like this copper, hallmarked fork!

HH, Dave

Anything you can dig up on it, I'd appreciate. As far as I know, silver plated items were not hallmarked. I had no idea that copper was either.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Very interesting finds GC!
I really like this copper, hallmarked fork!

HH, Dave

Anything you can dig up on it, I'd appreciate. As far as I know, silver plated items were not hallmarked. I had no idea that copper was either.

Exactly, all those marks just does not make sense not to be silver ??

I found the same (almost) button in my honourable mention thread.

 

[jewelerguy]

crazy that the fork is not silver.... maybe, just maybe, it is a low karat gold (?)

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

crazy that the fork is not silver.... maybe, just maybe, it is a low karat gold (?)

Hmmm maybe I should take it to a jeweler to look at. Buffing wheel they use might clean it up better than anything I've tried. I tried cleaning it using the washing soda/salt and aluminum foil/boiling water. That did nothing, so that's why I KNOW it's not silver. Baking soda/water paste did nothing. SOS pad brought out the copper/dark gold sheen, but it doesn't seem to do anything else now.

Did they make low grade gold forks? When I found it I was thinking it was silver because of the weight and the hallmarks. It's a pretty heavy fork compared to any I've seen before.

 

[steelheadwill]

That fork is an oddity...
overall design looks mid/late 19th century, which is a lot later than usage of the
'kings arrow' also, that doesn't look like a British crown.
I would guess it was originally silver plated, and maybe passed off as Sterling.
Closeups of hallmarks will certainly help.
Very interesting find

 

[Damon64]

Thats a lot of digging! Good stuff!