November 23rd woods hunt.

giant056

giant056

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It was warmed right up this morning and almost all of the snow was gone, they were predicting rain but looking at the radar I decided that it wasn't real bad yet so I went for it. It's one of my old standby spots that's only a mile away, I branded the place Park/Woods a long time ago, I've been hunting the spot in the spring and winter since 1998 and there hasn't been a year go by since that I didn't find at least one silver there, today I managed to conjure of three pieces of silver.

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And three very different pieces of silver. Love that fork, the design at the end of the handle is fantastic. Very nice merc but what is the third item? A charm?. That spot has been producing for you since 1998...WOW.

:congrats:on a great hunt
 
Great hunt & congrats on the Silver. The Merc looks to be in pretty good shape and the fork looks like new.
Great Job
 
Wow, 26 years of producing. That's amazing. Keep it a secret, it likes you. The pull tabs are even shiny. :cheesysmile: Congrats on the nice silver and thanks for sharing.
 
The fork is clean; you gonna put it in your silverware for the holidays? lol. The earlier wheats have a fat rim. Nice finds.
 
So Larry , what do you think this spot was ?? a picnic grove , "lover's lane " or just a look out view type of area back in the 40's ? congrats on the silver and wheats :thumbsup02:
 
Del here's an aerial view from Bing. The property was originally donated Charles B. Hays to Kalamazoo around 1900 for a park, along with a couple other parks (including South park which takes me less than 5 minutes to walk to).

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Here's one of my favorite finds from there, I think it was probably the winter of 2007 or 8 that I found this, it was about a foot deep and I found it with my MXT.

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There was also a City booklet published on the history of all city parks around 2008 I never did get a copy of but I've talked with a fellow detectorist that has a copy and he said there were temporary military buildings there at one time too. I have found a couple old U.S. spoons here too, the old nickel silver ones.

 
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Congrats on the three pieces of silver, Larry! :thumbsup02:

I really like that fork! Very nice! In all my years of detecting I have never found a solid silver piece of tableware.

Congrats on the productive day! :clapping:
 
Thanks for all the great replies everyone :thumbsup02: I was looking at the price they're getting for the fork, anywhere from $40 on up, Amazon had one listed for $52.
 
That fork is a nice chunk of Silver. I think I remember seeing the post for that watch. You better keep digging before the lake effect gets back your way. :thumbsup01:

Ron
 
That is an excellent bit of silver conjurring you did there Larry. I hope the rest of the winter is as fruitful for you.
 
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