scaupus
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October was a slow month for me in terms of finding things...in fact I found pretty much nothing in October. So, today was a pretty good start for November. I found some good buys at yard sales in the morning...including a sale at one of the historic oldest houses in Dade County on Erwin Road in South Miami...and, in the afternoon, some nice finds metal detecting. I found this .925 Cacharel brand silver earring in the water off the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach. It had the post on it when I found it, but I think it must have caught on the dog's leash while I was walking the dog. I was wearing it on a finger. lol.
Later, I checked a parking strip around the corner from my dad's place and hit 2 silver coin drops. I love that I don't dig trash when I'm hunting silver coins. It's a nice break from digging pull tabs and aluminum can fragments (can slaw) while hunting for gold jewelry.
Speaking of gold, the owner of that old house on Erwin Street told me a quaint story about finding a $5 gold piece. But first a little history that I learned about the man and his house. There are two houses on the property. The older one used to be in what became Coral Gables in 1925, and was the house the old man was born in. The new city government of the Gables wanted his father to stucco the frame house, so his dad just moved the house across the street into Larkin, later renamed the city of South Miami.
Another interesting fact is that the man named Erwin, for whom the street was named, milled the Dade County pine (a wood famed for its hardness and termite resistance, nearly extinct today) for the original house back in about 1913 for the old man's father, and he also supplied the lumber for the rehab and remodeling done on the house in the 1950's by the old man himself when he was still a young man.
The rehab and remodel cost $8000, a very tidy sum in the 1950s...you could buy a very nice new house for that much back then. The old man couldn't get a bank loan, and told Erwin they'd have to forget about it. Erwin told him to see a certain VP over at First Federal. The old man was very impressed by the large, well furnished office. He mentioned that Erwin had sent him over, and the VP told him the loan would be no problem. If Erwin said the house was worth it, then that was all he needed to know.
Anyhow, a propo of metal detecting for old coins, the old man told me about a guy who was edging a lawn in Hialeah (another city founded in the 1920's in Dade County) when the blade kicked out a $5 gold piece.
Later, I checked a parking strip around the corner from my dad's place and hit 2 silver coin drops. I love that I don't dig trash when I'm hunting silver coins. It's a nice break from digging pull tabs and aluminum can fragments (can slaw) while hunting for gold jewelry.
Speaking of gold, the owner of that old house on Erwin Street told me a quaint story about finding a $5 gold piece. But first a little history that I learned about the man and his house. There are two houses on the property. The older one used to be in what became Coral Gables in 1925, and was the house the old man was born in. The new city government of the Gables wanted his father to stucco the frame house, so his dad just moved the house across the street into Larkin, later renamed the city of South Miami.
Another interesting fact is that the man named Erwin, for whom the street was named, milled the Dade County pine (a wood famed for its hardness and termite resistance, nearly extinct today) for the original house back in about 1913 for the old man's father, and he also supplied the lumber for the rehab and remodeling done on the house in the 1950's by the old man himself when he was still a young man.
The rehab and remodel cost $8000, a very tidy sum in the 1950s...you could buy a very nice new house for that much back then. The old man couldn't get a bank loan, and told Erwin they'd have to forget about it. Erwin told him to see a certain VP over at First Federal. The old man was very impressed by the large, well furnished office. He mentioned that Erwin had sent him over, and the VP told him the loan would be no problem. If Erwin said the house was worth it, then that was all he needed to know.
Anyhow, a propo of metal detecting for old coins, the old man told me about a guy who was edging a lawn in Hialeah (another city founded in the 1920's in Dade County) when the blade kicked out a $5 gold piece.
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