1893 columbian exposition find

[dgaughan]

Hello all I went back to a site where I had found a 174? george the II hibernian half penny. I admit I had dreams of pine tree shillings and flowing haired beauties popping right of the ground. well a 1 hour car ride and 4 hours of detecting got me a pocket full of relics plated spoon, butter knife an interesting button and a columbian expo complimentary watch fob from the keystone watch cover co. I thought it was an old dog licsense until i cleaned it up. I gave it to kenb to go with the silver half dollar he has from the same expo. Pics will be posted tomorrow hh to all

 

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[PBK]

Nice find! Something like this? The bottom edge is designed for use in opening watch cases.

 

[halfdime]

That is a really nice find! I read a book about the exposition a year or two ago and it was very interesting.

 

[goldencoin]

Havn't seen one of those yet

HH
-GC

 

[Moonshadow]

Sounded like a good adventure trip though. I like the watch opener thingy.

HH,
Moon

 

[Mirage]

I have one of those columbian expo silver half dollars too. The fob looks cool. Sounds like it was worth the trip.

Mirage

 

[dgaughan]

thanks pbk that is exactly what it looks like kenb is putting the pics on for me later today and it was worth the trip we got an artic blast last night and the ground is freezing up so it will be the last dig for awhile

 

[lonewolfe]

Nice find!

HH

 

[TxTim]

Wow!
Too cool!

 

[kenb]

Dylans pics (hopefully)

 

[kenb]

Forgot the button

 

[99Brown]

Awesome finds. WTG!!

 

[civilman1]

That all worked out pretty good Dylan.....Your find ,pbk,and then Ken to follow suit.....Awesome find,the coin's are still there!!!!

 

[Hardy]

nice finds

 

[SilverDreams]

Very cool find!

 

[PBK]

The button is a late 19th - early 20th century dress button which was often produced in molded & dyed horn rather than metal, and depicts two cherubs holding a mirror or picture frame. Some versions actually had a steel or silvered brass "mirror" inset, and others had a tiny cameo-like portrait or a flower (usually a tulip) in the center.

Also, on some buttons the rosettes at the top and bottom of the oval were replaced with small heads said to be masks of Pan.

As a matter of fact, actual mirrors of the same design were also popular in that era, as shown in the photo of a modern repro below:

 

[kenb]

You are amazing PBK!! thanks for the info!

kenb

 

[Don in SJ]

Nice find and piece of history

I like any of the old souvenirs from past events, nothing like having an old object that without a doubt you know the age of. A few years back I got my 1893 Chicago Exposition Souvernier, at the time I found it I had not idea what it was.

I put it in a Peroxide bath and it cleaned up beautifully to reveal that it was a Exposition souvernier and mine was representing the Liberty Bell (before it squashed in the ground).

Don

 

[dgaughan]

thanks again pbk don that bell is pretty cool. what did it come up as on your detector

dylan

 

[kenb]

Wow Don the bell is great! Was peroxide all you used? it came out beautiful.

kenb