Silver or Junk?

[GeorgeinSC]

This morning my GT and I were at a local city park shorty after daylight. Had to get up early to beat the heat. I have been working this park very carefully over the past few visits and have been able to find three Mercury Dimes. I am going quite slow and listening for those deeper targets. I think all the shallow stuff (except Zincs) have already been removed.

I did not find much this morning but I did not expect to find very much. I collected $1.95 in clad and some Lincolns. Only one wheatie (1951).

I did make one find that I am not sure about. The GT gave a good high tone and the meter registered a 180 on this item. It appears that it may have at one time been a bracelet.

The item is too heavy to be aluminum (33 Grams) and is not magnetic so I am hopeful that it is sterling. I do not own a test kit so I will just have to hope that it is silver. The diameter is 3/16" at its smallest.

Now I have to go back to the park and search to see if I can find where the lawn mower tossed the rest of it.

 

[Neil]

Sure looks like silver George. Is it broken on one end, sure seems like a strange looking piece doesn't it?

 

[GeorgeinSC]

Neil It appears that the lawn mower had a battle with the piece and the lawn mower won. I suspect that the part that is missing would have been a mirror image of what I found. That is why I thought that it may be a piece of a bracelet.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

George,like those old parks,but I have the same problem of making good finds after a while.Neil is probably right,maybe swiped by a lawn mower?Looks like a nice peace of Jewelry that may still have value from the silver content.Thanks for sharing. Ron