Featured STERLING SILVER CHATELAINE FOB

Something I picked up at a watch-&-clock fair in town today. It's a solid silver chatelaine-fob and watch chain, made out of silver coins.

From top to bottom, the coins are...

10 Pesetas - 1885 - Kingdom of Spain.
20 Cents - 1894 - Newfoundland.
25 Cents - 1892 - Republic of Mexico.
2 Marks - 1900 - German Empire (Hamburg, specifically).
50 Cents - 1899 - Newfoundland.



...with my pocketwatch attached:



...and wearing it on my belt. There's no hook or clasp, or anything, so it's simply held in place by friction and weight.



...and as you can see, it's plenty weighty!...

 

nice find...nice look....& the Newfie coins are super.

like my Dads chain, yours is marked on every link..right ?

I think that's cool !

 

This particular chain, yes. Each link has a little lion-passant.

Man that must've been a lot of work!! Feel sorry for the assay-marker!

 

is it possible when this item was made.... that those coins were not yet worth that kind of money...??

they do look crisp....

 

Silver-coin jewelry was very popular in the early 1900s. I've seen bracelets, cufflinks, belts, necklaces, belt-buckles, brooches, watch-fobs, etc, all made of old silver coins.

It wouldn't surprise me if what Komo says is right - that it was made back in like, the 1900s, when these coins were still relatively new, and turned into a watch-fob. It would explain why there's no wear on them, because they weren't passed around everywhere for 50 years or whatever.

The guy I bought it from didn't know any of the history, except that everything was solid silver.

 

I don't know enough to be sure either way. I'd have wandered off with it for the right price!

 

As far as silver watch-chains go, it was pretty cheap.

 

My favorite price point, other than Free.

 

you mean... inexpensive !

 

Inexpensive, cheap, whatever...a discount of nearly 50% is good in anybody's books, especially when it was already super cheap.

 

Words matter........

 

Well I'm not a coin collector in general, I collect silver and general antiques. Unfortunately, carrying a magnet around with me all the time just isn't practical. But thanks for the insight. Even if they are real, or not real, what's been done to them would render them worthless anyway, so I'm not too bothered.

 

& I'm trying to learn....

.......if FAKE... why would you destroy such a valuable coin by soldering silver to it., instead of trying to market it as authentic .... for a payoff ???

 

Well they're not magnetic, I can tell you that much. Either way, I think it's cool. If it's breaking some site rule against posting fake stuff, then feel free to delete it.

 

The fakes can be educational too.

 

yes...but one has to demonstrate why it is a fake.......