Hope!! Treasure Hunting Thursdays: There's A Surreptitious Inwards These Spoons
I've decided to devote Th weblog posts to treasure hunting. If you're familiar amongst my weblog yous in all likelihood figured out correct away that treasure hunting for me agency thrift store shopping, flea markets, used mass sales, the occasional auction or estate sale, as well as fifty-fifty eBay finds. Yay!
So from at nowadays on I am going to sweat to arrive a signal to reserve Th weblog posts for sharing my most awesome finds as well as treasure hunting tips as well as adventures. Of course, non all treasure hunting days are a win, but there's ever something expert inward every day; interesting as well as funny things I honor along the way, then I volition part those things here. And I desire to listen nearly your ain treasure hunting travels too! So delight live on certain to exit comments after the post, as well as produce part amongst us your best as well as most interesting treasure hunting finds. More nearly the spoons pictured to a higher house inward a footling bit...but first...
This past times weekend nosotros had our get-go snowfall tempest of wintertime (finally!) We got over thirty inches of snow!
This was the sentiment looking into my forepart yard during the storm. It looks similar powdered sugar!
I had my daughters for the weekend as well as nosotros planned to fix as well as bake lots of cracking things. These were what everyone wanted: Elephant Ear Cookies! I hadn't brand them for a long fourth dimension as well as I recollect they disappeared instantly! I'll postal service the recipe inward the side past times side twenty-four hours or two. If you've never had them you're missing out, because they are an amazing combination of cinnamon as well as carbohydrate mixed amongst a yeast dough pastry, as well as the texture is simply out of this world! So learn a pack of yeast as well as some parchment newspaper for baking as well as banking concern tally dorsum inward a twenty-four hours or 2 for the recipe. (find it here)
During the tempest I constitute Sam asleep on overstep of a tall bookcase inward my workshop. My cats follow me to a greater extent than or less all twenty-four hours as well as honey to hang out amongst me when I'm working inward my workshop. I simply honey how he covers his confront amongst his paw when he sleeps :)
Now dorsum to those spoons...
Here they are. Five of them. Ornate handles. Perfect for making into jewelry. Or are they?
I bought these spoons inward an eBay auction that was a box lot of peradventure 15-20 pieces of diverse patterned silverplated spoons as well as forks for nearly $10.00. I bought them a long fourth dimension agone as well as stashed them away. Then afterwards pulled them out to peradventure brand them into some jewelry. But on closer inspection...
I constitute they were venture sterling silver! Wow! I had no idea, as well as obviously neither did the individual who sold them to me. I'm guessing they didn't bother to banking concern tally the marks on the backs of the spoons.
They are marked "International Sterling". "International" is the manufacturer name, as well as "Sterling" is well, sterling silver. Flatware cannot live on marked "sterling" unless it is venture sterling silver. Any other flatware is argent plated, money silver, or if its modern, is most probable stainless steel. Also, simply for a fleck of trivia, in that place is no such affair every bit "sterling argent plated" because something cannot live on marked sterling unless it is sold sterling argent through as well as through.
The value of these v spoons? Around $200.00!
Lesson for the day: if you're selling something, ever banking concern tally get-go to brand certain it non a valuable antique. Same goes for if yous are going to utilization something that is onetime every bit a arts and crafts material!
Do yous bring a treasure even out to tell?
Please part it amongst us past times leaving a comment below!
Enjoy the residuum of your week!
Love, Laura
