Raw silver found as wire – sold at the Bancroft Gemboree
If you want it you can find it at the Bancroft Gemboree.
Yeah – they look like fletched arrow spines, barbs on fish hooks or just poorly made hooks but as the vendor explained, they are naturally occuring pieces of silver wire.
I am especially interested in what can be found up in cobalt. There was a massive silver strike up there in the early 1900s. According to the fellow that I was speaking to he said he had no luck in Cobalt – shook his head like it had been a really distasteful experience. “Got these from California”. I suspect he was keeping me clear of a rich hunting ground.
These pieces of silver wire are sometimes found in tangled balls and at other times in thick strands like the branches of a dead tree.
