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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9495202, member: 10944"]As happens often I incorrectly remembered the ending time of the nearest estate sale today. They NEVER happen in my town and this weekend there was a sale conveniently 1 mile away. Got there at 2pm Saturday. The published ending time was 3pm yet they told me they were closed at 2pm when I arrived. I checked again before leaving and online definitely said 3pm, but whatever. I just hate that they lied to me and told me it was 2pm when clearly it was just dead and they wanted to go home. Anyways I figured it was 2pm again today so I sipped coffee until 1pm and then got up to leave only to double check on the way out the door and today was 1pm. So I found the next closest sale and made it there with 15 mins to spare before close. Found my first “wild” silver in a while. They had a handful of sterling flatware odds and ends in a case. Then they had the standard kitchen drawer organizer bins out on the counters. Flipped through one and pulled out a mid 19th century coin silver spoon. Covered in gunky verdigris worse than I’ve seen a piece of flatware but surely coin silver retailed by E.B Horn of Boston. Got that, a couple random pieces, and this wooden spoon for $2. Long story long, is this just a white mans old handmade wooden spoon or is it Native American made potentially? I grabbed it because I recalled seeing similar examples being attributed as NA. Doing some browsing it looks like a general “woodlands” description is given to some in similar form. [ATTACH=full]447466[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]447467[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]447468[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9495202, member: 10944"]As happens often I incorrectly remembered the ending time of the nearest estate sale today. They NEVER happen in my town and this weekend there was a sale conveniently 1 mile away. Got there at 2pm Saturday. The published ending time was 3pm yet they told me they were closed at 2pm when I arrived. I checked again before leaving and online definitely said 3pm, but whatever. I just hate that they lied to me and told me it was 2pm when clearly it was just dead and they wanted to go home. Anyways I figured it was 2pm again today so I sipped coffee until 1pm and then got up to leave only to double check on the way out the door and today was 1pm. So I found the next closest sale and made it there with 15 mins to spare before close. Found my first “wild” silver in a while. They had a handful of sterling flatware odds and ends in a case. Then they had the standard kitchen drawer organizer bins out on the counters. Flipped through one and pulled out a mid 19th century coin silver spoon. Covered in gunky verdigris worse than I’ve seen a piece of flatware but surely coin silver retailed by E.B Horn of Boston. Got that, a couple random pieces, and this wooden spoon for $2. Long story long, is this just a white mans old handmade wooden spoon or is it Native American made potentially? I grabbed it because I recalled seeing similar examples being attributed as NA. Doing some browsing it looks like a general “woodlands” description is given to some in similar form. [ATTACH=full]447466[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]447467[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]447468[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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