Glen's Loyalists
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I haven't posted for a bit but my son and I got out a few times on our land since Christmas as the ground still has not frozen. Nothing outstanding, but here are some of the better finds:
We think the best of the recent finds is this cool Bicycle advertising key or watch fob from the Hyslop Brother's of Toronto.
An online search shows that they seemed to be in business from about 1892 until the late 1920's or early 1930's. They became Canada's first Olds-Mobile (their spelling) dealer in 1902 and Cadillac dealer in 1906. As that is not mentioned on the fob I wonder if it is earlier.
Their bikes are rare now and were high end apparently, including one with a propeller on the back, what could possibly go wrong?
I suggest that any ladies, or gents, with longer hair ride out front.
We are going to hit some junk piles on the off chance that there may be an 'aviator' bike or parts out there somewhere, I would love to find this cool badge:
Anyway, back to the finds, I went out two days ago alone and decided to hit some hard parts that are nearly impossible to detect:
What a mess, but virgin ground and I know its jammed with stuff, most of which will be late 18th century. It seems every little spot where we can swing, there is something there. We will be cleaning some of that up this year. You can just see the tip of my Deus above and right there I got an 1861 Nova Scotia One Cent. We get lots of these and apart from a few exceptional ones they are usually destroyed. You would think they added sugar to the alloy, but I think the culprit is zinc in the copper. I am not finished cleaning this one but it is not too bad as the ground here is very well drained.
About 10 feet away, directly below a sapling, I found this nice and chunky circa 1850-60 bronze French religious medal
A few projectiles were found, from a squashed musket ball on the large side to a little buck on the small side. I am not sure what the second largest one is, but it seems to have some age.
After one poke in the eye too many I called it off in there, but I'll be back.
A few other brief outings in the past couple of weeks on our land yielded this interesting guy who looks to be a Beefeater to me:
A nice little cast bronze ring:
A couple of better little buckles, the one marked Paris is circa 1870's and is the second one we have found recently
This was so deep and wispy, it could have been a false signal, but it is a destroyed pewter button. There is enough though that I can see the carriage or howdah on the elephant, so that this would be the 76th Regiment of Foot I think, the Hindoostan Regiment. They were in Canada during the War of 1812 and again in the 1840's. Being pewter, I suspect this would be an earlier button but I may be wrong.
Completely destroyed, but I am pleased to be able to ID it.
Other items include a couple of Thistle tokens, our most commonly found coins, these are 1832 on the left and either 1840 or 1843 on the right. Also a completely worn half penny, likely George II, some destroyed Wheaties and George VI pennies, shoe taps, a knife with some mother of pearl remaining, etc.
Cant have a day without some spoonage, but there are some nice touch marks on this one:
In a stone filled hill along side an 18th century foundation my son had his largest find, this anvil horn. He said it rang up well. He thought the signal was below this half buried 'rock', but when he went to to move it, it was about 5 times heavier than it should have been.
Happy hunting.
We think the best of the recent finds is this cool Bicycle advertising key or watch fob from the Hyslop Brother's of Toronto.
An online search shows that they seemed to be in business from about 1892 until the late 1920's or early 1930's. They became Canada's first Olds-Mobile (their spelling) dealer in 1902 and Cadillac dealer in 1906. As that is not mentioned on the fob I wonder if it is earlier.
Their bikes are rare now and were high end apparently, including one with a propeller on the back, what could possibly go wrong?
I suggest that any ladies, or gents, with longer hair ride out front.
We are going to hit some junk piles on the off chance that there may be an 'aviator' bike or parts out there somewhere, I would love to find this cool badge:
Anyway, back to the finds, I went out two days ago alone and decided to hit some hard parts that are nearly impossible to detect:
What a mess, but virgin ground and I know its jammed with stuff, most of which will be late 18th century. It seems every little spot where we can swing, there is something there. We will be cleaning some of that up this year. You can just see the tip of my Deus above and right there I got an 1861 Nova Scotia One Cent. We get lots of these and apart from a few exceptional ones they are usually destroyed. You would think they added sugar to the alloy, but I think the culprit is zinc in the copper. I am not finished cleaning this one but it is not too bad as the ground here is very well drained.
About 10 feet away, directly below a sapling, I found this nice and chunky circa 1850-60 bronze French religious medal
A few projectiles were found, from a squashed musket ball on the large side to a little buck on the small side. I am not sure what the second largest one is, but it seems to have some age.
After one poke in the eye too many I called it off in there, but I'll be back.
A few other brief outings in the past couple of weeks on our land yielded this interesting guy who looks to be a Beefeater to me:
A nice little cast bronze ring:
A couple of better little buckles, the one marked Paris is circa 1870's and is the second one we have found recently
This was so deep and wispy, it could have been a false signal, but it is a destroyed pewter button. There is enough though that I can see the carriage or howdah on the elephant, so that this would be the 76th Regiment of Foot I think, the Hindoostan Regiment. They were in Canada during the War of 1812 and again in the 1840's. Being pewter, I suspect this would be an earlier button but I may be wrong.
Completely destroyed, but I am pleased to be able to ID it.
Other items include a couple of Thistle tokens, our most commonly found coins, these are 1832 on the left and either 1840 or 1843 on the right. Also a completely worn half penny, likely George II, some destroyed Wheaties and George VI pennies, shoe taps, a knife with some mother of pearl remaining, etc.
Cant have a day without some spoonage, but there are some nice touch marks on this one:
In a stone filled hill along side an 18th century foundation my son had his largest find, this anvil horn. He said it rang up well. He thought the signal was below this half buried 'rock', but when he went to to move it, it was about 5 times heavier than it should have been.
Happy hunting.
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