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>>55127061
To continue the show-and-tell, here are some of the most interesting pieces of base metal silverware I've come across. I had done some scouting around the grounds of a big state Insane Asylum built in the early 1900s and found the old dump. The newer 30s-50s dump was already known and people had poked around it but I discovered where the pre-1910 spot was. I've never really felt the spirits or energies of the deceased digging anywhere else but that spot was wild, it was mostly thick institutional ironstone china shards from all the dishes purposefully broken by the inmates, and interspersed were pieces of flatware mangled and modified by the lunatics. Many buttons and rivets and whatnot from clothing and restraints, turned bone nipples for feeding invalids, some hobnail cobalt poisons and blank druggist bottles. Most poignant finds were a blunt dinner knife broken short then sharpened into a wicked scalpel-shiv, and a fork that had all tines broken off, the front edge beveled, and a center slot ground in past where the tines were to turn it into a nail-puller or prybar or the like. Clearly confiscated and disposed of, I wonder what similar artifacts exist there. I only dug there once but intend to go back to dig and sift more someday, wouldn't be surprised if better and more personal items are waiting to be found, maybe a paranoid schizo's ass-stash of 5 dollar gold coins that were accidentally thrown out lol.