When Chris Laub planned a recent trip out into the woods, the hope was to find a few old beer bottles.Laub, who goes by vancityrelics on Instagram, is a bottle digger; he goes out and finds old bottles buried by time, though sometimes he finds other things at the same time."We were following a heritage trail through the forest; we were chasing a tip on a rusted-out car spotted deep in the forest," says Laub. They were on the lookout for some 1920s beer bottles.
They poked around the old car with Laub's probe and found there was something more under all the foliage and forest floor. They were able to pull up a metal panel; Laub thinks it was an old Chevy that had been sitting there for 60 or 80 years. In the video, as Hicks pulls out handfuls of spoons, forks, and knives, Laub says "This is the mother lode of silverware."
It appears there are about a dozen sets of silverware, which is silverplated over brass. That includes utensils like pickle forks and dessert spoons. "To find a piece of cutlery with a stamp on it is very rare," Laub says. "Those are the ones everyone wants to find but no one finds them." As for how the utensils came to be there, Laub's best guess is that they were stolen, and then stashed in the forest for safekeeping.
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