Another iffy signal pays off, my first plate for 2010

[vayank54]

Today I went back to the house site where I dug the NY cuff button and hunt the beaten down thorns some more. I found this spot about 10 years ago and it has been good to me. Some of my better finds there include a GA frame buckle Sabre belt plate, Eagle Breast plate, Lead filled LA buckle, VMM (Maine) buckle, 1799 8 reales, several 2 reales and quite a few colonial coppers, large cents and other coins as well an quite a few civil war buttons The ground is fairly bad and full of iron. You can dig a hole almost anyplace there, grab a handfull of dirt and it will have 5 to 10 nails in it. I decided to use my Cibola this time. I hunted about 6 hours and got a rough Indian head penny, part of a shoe buckle, a brass spool to a sabre belt rig and a brass rivet. I got a really iffy signal that would chatter one way and do nothing the other. The machine would always chatter in the same spot so I decide to dig it after digging about a foot and pulling out about a dozen nails I saw a site that makes a relic hunters heart jump into their throat puppy paws. It was a nice US buckle but missing the main hook. After that I got something that gave a signal when I would swing from one direction but not the other. It turned out to be an eagle button laying beside a railroad spike. I also got a small piece of brass and a small piece of clay pipe stem. It pays to dig those iffy signals

 

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[Iron Patch]

You must mean White Oak Museum.

For sure! It was the highlight of my trip! I don't remember the cost to get in, but was very low, like $10 maybe? It should easily be $25.

That really gave me some perspective how common a CW eagle button is!

 

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[vayank54]

You must mean White Oak Museum.

For sure! It was the highlight of my trip! I don't remember the cost to get in, but was very low, like $10 maybe? It should easily be $25.

That really gave me some perspective how common a CW eagle button is!

It's only about $4 to get in. They now have a bunch of the shoes and boards from the corduroy road that was dug a few years ago too. Like you said it should be worth more.

 

[Iron Patch]

You must mean White Oak Museum.

For sure! It was the highlight of my trip! I don't remember the cost to get in, but was very low, like $10 maybe? It should easily be $25.

That really gave me some perspective how common a CW eagle button is!

It's only about $4 to get in. They now have a bunch of the shoes and boards from the corduroy road that was dug a few years ago too. Like you said it should be worth more.

All I remembered was it was a price I didn't even have to consider paying and that was just having walked in the door. They sure put a lot of effort into that to charge so little.