A jewelry day.

[Fire Fighter 43]

I made another trip back to the school house I was at last week and manage a nice variety of jewelry finds. One silver ring and a silver pendant bracelet were the highlights of the hunt. I ended up with only 3 wheats and no silver coins. The clad count was $2.21.
Here is the video link. https://youtu.be/rN44O10VPao

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

Still some nice silver jewelry finds, congrats!

 

[BTV Digger]

As you say - a nice variety of finds and congrats on some older silver! I also find the little clock or late date skeleton key quite interesting.

John

 

[Bucknut]

A jewelry day is a good day! If you are finding that much stuff at that school then there surely is more there. Go get it!

 

[Digger Don]

A nice variety of finds and a good amount of silver.:congrats:

 

[Cooper]

Looks like you found a bit of everything congrats

 

[aloldstuff]

Gotta love the little kids who lose things. Nice group of jewelry....:thumbsup02:

 

[wisconsin digger]

I did find 2 rings today but it does not compare to all that bling. Nice finds. WD

 

[z118]

Looks like a niello ring? From Wikipedia:

[h=3]Thai jewellery[/h]Nielloware jewellery and related items from Thailand were popular gifts from American soldiers taking "R&R" in Thailand to their girlfriends/wives back home from the 1930s to the 1970s. Most of it was completely handmade jewellery.
The technique is as follows: the artisan would carve a design into the silver, leaving the figure raised by carving out the "background". He would then use the niello inlay to fill in the "background". After being baked in an open fire, the alloy would harden. It would then be sanded smooth and buffed. Finally, a silver artisan would add minute details by hand. Filigree was often used for additional ornamentation. Nielloware is classified as only being black and silver coloured. Other coloured jewellery originating during this time uses a different technique and is not considered niello.
Many of the characters shown in nielloware are characters originally found in the Hindu legend Ramayana. The Thai version is called Ramakien. Important Thai cultural symbols were also frequently used.

 

[Cooper]

Some nice finds I’m still waiting for my skeleton key found a whole set of modern keys my neighbor had lost when he first moved here about two inches in the ground