Bear and Wheat

[1wvhunter]

Found what looks to be a tie clip with a polar bear symbol.
Also a 41 wheat and various other junk. Buttons, rivets, and modern bullets.

 

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[1wvhunter]

This was found at an old one room schoolhouse which was said to operate up to early 1950s.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Nice finds - congrats !

 

[Almy]

I've found a couple 1/2s and a 1 real but never a 2. One of mine is holed by a punch like yours. I have found about 30 colonial coppers to one of these silvers and figure they were valuable and small enough that sometimes they were holed so that they could be strung to avoid loss.

 

[oldmxrat]

Nice finds, congrats!

 

[ArfieBoy]

Interesting finds! Cool! Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

 

[Tnmountains]

Like the polar bear.

 

[Red-Coat]

Cool polar bear. According to this Russian website, it’s a badge for the “31st US Infantry Regiment Polar Bear Expedition 1918-19”. Looks to have been made into a tie clip or money clip.

https://forums-su.com/viewtopic.php?t=812519&start=20

The 31st Infantry Regiment ("Polar Bears") of the United States Army was formed on 13 August 1916, but spent most of its life on non-American soil.

Along with the 27th Regiment, they became part of the American Expeditionary Force Siberia that was sent to Valdivostok, Russia in August 1918. They were tasked with guarding the Trans-Siberian railway to protect Allied war materials from being looted by Red revolutionaries and White counter-revolutionaries.