Boyds Galvanic Battery

[Mr Ripley]

Boyd's Galvanic Battery

Hi all,

Been forever since I posted because it has been forever since I found anything worth posting...

Weeks ago I did find my first silver coin that was not a dime though. A small triangle of grass in a turn around in the local park yielded the 1905 Barber pictured below. Still have not dug a silver Washington or SLQ, this was a thrill.

This weekend I swung a lot but got pretty well skunked so I went to plan B, the trusty bottle dump. I dug a few marbles and some local milks, then a heavy disc fell out of the area i was excavating. I thought coin at first and then heavy token of some sort (I don't wear my glasses when I dig). Turns out I dug a Boyd's Galvanic Battery. It was a quack medicine device to be worn around the neck to cure all sorts of woes.

http://www.wordcraft.net/magneticbattery.html

It will be a nice addition to my patent med bottle collection.

The battery is made of discs of nickel, copper and silver which brings up questions as to the best way of cleaning it. Any suggestions

Thanks for looking,

Mr R

 

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[billydabeeg]

Re: Boyd's Galvanic Battery

nice silver and that battery thing is cool. congrats.

 

[Brian in MA]

Re: Boyd's Galvanic Battery

That's unbelievable. I found just about the same thing this week. I spent hours trying to identify it using Google without success. I should have just waited a few days and read your post. Mine is missing a few of the discs and it has a different name on it (Flanigans Battery).

I have never seen anything like it in the 30 years I've been hunting and now I have seen two just this week.

I'm going to research Boyd's battery in hopes that it will turn up something on my Flanigans Battery.

Congrats,

Brian in MA