BuckleBoy
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UPDATE!--Here's the link to all the rest of the finds from the hunts. Here's Hill Billy's post:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,156024.msg1129324.html#msg1129324
Hello All,
I got together with Digger Girl, fellow Iron Brigader Hill Billy, and two of his friends from out of town for a detecting Extravaganza this weekend. We hit several sites, and with five skilled detectorists POUNDING the soil, there were some excellent finds come to light. Evidently some of these Nuts were out on Friday night digging like a pack of rabid wolverines with headlamps at 10 at night...
I missed that fun, but came into town on Saturday morning with DG. We loaded up the gear and headed out to the first site--a frustrating Trashy site where there had been a trailer on top of an old house site. Good finds had been made there in the past--the best of which was HB's fantastic 1839 Seated Dime. We pounded the site for a few hours and then moved on to two more. The hunt on Saturday lasted about 9 or 10 hours for DG and I--and there was still hunting going on when I left to get back to town. :P Here's a photo of the trash dump of one of the sites for you:
Now I won't say what the others found--they'll make their own post I'm sure--but I will post some of DG and my finds. I got skunked on coins--but was happy with the relics I found. (Everyone else on the hunt found at least one coin--and they were all oooooold!)
So here are some of the finds--I DO need to ask a few questions about some of these...
DG got a nice flat button with the backmark "Robinson & Co." "Treble Gilt". I know there are some Robinsons in the backmark lists I have, but I'm unable to find a backmark that matches exactly. Perhaps one of you can help. We're trying to date the site.
Here's a photo:
I also dug a nice gold-plated pocketwatch out of the ground (and it wasn't the only pocketwatch found on Saturday!). Here it is coming out of the ground:
DG dug an interesting item that I hadn't seen before. It is gold-plated lead (yes, that's right. LEAD.), and it has a decorative design on it. Any ideas what on earth this one could be? Here are photos of the front and back, with a wheatie for scale:
And a sampling of finds... We certainly dug many examples of the usual housesite culprits between all of us hunting that day...toe taps, harmonica reeds, suspender clips, and flat buttons:
The "Tri-State Butter Co." tag was an interesting find. I actually dug two of them, and gave one to HB. I can't find any information out about them. Is there a Tnet member from Cinci. willing to look at the business listings from the turn of the century help me out with this one? There is no information online anywhere that I could find about the company.
I'm assuming that the tags came on Lard, or something less perishable than butter or cream. (No refridgeration back then--and the trip from Cinci would've been too long.) I'd imagine that the tags were affixed to crates which had long since rotted away--the corners of them are very sharp, so I'm thinking they were attached to a flat surface).
It was nice to get out and enjoy the sunshine--and especially nice to hunt with new faces. I appreciate being around serious detectorists that really know how to hunt--none of this 30 minute stuff. I had a great time, and enjoyed meeting you two. I hope we'll get to hunt again sometime. Travel safely, and the best of luck to you in your hunts back home.
Regards,
Buckleboy
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,156024.msg1129324.html#msg1129324
Hello All,
I got together with Digger Girl, fellow Iron Brigader Hill Billy, and two of his friends from out of town for a detecting Extravaganza this weekend. We hit several sites, and with five skilled detectorists POUNDING the soil, there were some excellent finds come to light. Evidently some of these Nuts were out on Friday night digging like a pack of rabid wolverines with headlamps at 10 at night...
I missed that fun, but came into town on Saturday morning with DG. We loaded up the gear and headed out to the first site--a frustrating Trashy site where there had been a trailer on top of an old house site. Good finds had been made there in the past--the best of which was HB's fantastic 1839 Seated Dime. We pounded the site for a few hours and then moved on to two more. The hunt on Saturday lasted about 9 or 10 hours for DG and I--and there was still hunting going on when I left to get back to town. :P Here's a photo of the trash dump of one of the sites for you:
Now I won't say what the others found--they'll make their own post I'm sure--but I will post some of DG and my finds. I got skunked on coins--but was happy with the relics I found. (Everyone else on the hunt found at least one coin--and they were all oooooold!)
So here are some of the finds--I DO need to ask a few questions about some of these...
DG got a nice flat button with the backmark "Robinson & Co." "Treble Gilt". I know there are some Robinsons in the backmark lists I have, but I'm unable to find a backmark that matches exactly. Perhaps one of you can help. We're trying to date the site.
Here's a photo:
I also dug a nice gold-plated pocketwatch out of the ground (and it wasn't the only pocketwatch found on Saturday!). Here it is coming out of the ground:
DG dug an interesting item that I hadn't seen before. It is gold-plated lead (yes, that's right. LEAD.), and it has a decorative design on it. Any ideas what on earth this one could be? Here are photos of the front and back, with a wheatie for scale:
And a sampling of finds... We certainly dug many examples of the usual housesite culprits between all of us hunting that day...toe taps, harmonica reeds, suspender clips, and flat buttons:
The "Tri-State Butter Co." tag was an interesting find. I actually dug two of them, and gave one to HB. I can't find any information out about them. Is there a Tnet member from Cinci. willing to look at the business listings from the turn of the century help me out with this one? There is no information online anywhere that I could find about the company.
I'm assuming that the tags came on Lard, or something less perishable than butter or cream. (No refridgeration back then--and the trip from Cinci would've been too long.) I'd imagine that the tags were affixed to crates which had long since rotted away--the corners of them are very sharp, so I'm thinking they were attached to a flat surface).
It was nice to get out and enjoy the sunshine--and especially nice to hunt with new faces. I appreciate being around serious detectorists that really know how to hunt--none of this 30 minute stuff. I had a great time, and enjoyed meeting you two. I hope we'll get to hunt again sometime. Travel safely, and the best of luck to you in your hunts back home.
Regards,
Buckleboy
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