Carnie cleanup bites back!

[Lowbatts]

Granny Meth the dread-locked she-carnie met up with me at the first site this morning at sunrise.

She was sipping something wild and going on about 200+ bucks she found there this weekend. But then she covers ground a lot faster. A LOT faster. 35 going on 70 does that to you with the right chemical enhancements.

So I pondered my fate as a carnie chaser, this year being dismal to date. Should have been there on Sunday morning hanging my head, swinging and beeping. My new credo. I cried unto the tents and matted grass seeking only their clad. They responded slowly, then it picked up, frenzied chase after quarters on end, one after the other. Take that Granny Meth Head! You can see 'em, but I can hear them calling out to me.

Appropriately named, the Bingo Tent rewarded me with the most unusual of modern carnie cleanup finds. Don't know if this buttplate is from a rifle, but being only twice the size of a 1909 Barber half, the coin I found nearby, I'm guessing not so. Maybe a heel plate from a boot, but might be too big for that, even though the forward edge is beveled. Got both pieces about 5 feet apart. Says "Patented Oct. 31, 1922" on it. Hmmm, Halloween trick, or treat? The gold holy medal came up near those other three.

 

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[kimsdad]

She was sipping something wild and going on about 200+ bucks she found there this weekend. But then she covers ground a lot faster. A LOT faster. 35 going on 70 does that to you with the right chemical enhancements.

I know of the species - very scary as far as I'm concerned. I'd rather battle ten raccoons than have one of those in the area!

Sweet half there, Tim!!!

Looks like all that cladding paid off with a good deep signal! WTG on that great find!

 

[litefire56]

Wow! Cool finds at the carnie site, when you're basically going just for the clad, right?
Big high five on the gold and silver Tim!!!

Still looking for my first half.

 

[treasurefiend]

Awesome job bud, I was torn between doing a carnie cleanup or going and hunting for silver ~ well you already know what I decided on... Great job on that half, looks like it was a pendent (maybe a carnie prize or something) so no tellin how long it was there, might of only been dropped by a carnie just a few years ago. How deep was it?

As for methheads, crackheads, or anyother kinda heads - they are all f#&@heads in my book and you gotta keep your eyes on them at all time as most would attack you if they thought you hat a dollar in your pocket...

 

[mikewaz]

Nice finds Tim!
That Barber was a nice surprise.
Mike

 

[watercolor]

Tim, excellent finds!

That brass piece might be the sole plate for a golf club. . . (the Barber for a friendly
skins game wager and the holy medal for calming the nerves over a 3-foot putt)

 

[Lowbatts]

I think you got it Mark. Sole plate from a swinger is the best fit for it. But the nearby golf course is about 70 years newer than that. Somebody swinging grandpa's originals in the park grounds maybe...

Yeah guys, the religious medal was surface, sideways in grass and gave that solid foil beep, 14k in CZ lingo. The half was just under the surface, sure enough Kermit, it's holed and had to be dropped sometime since I was there last year, at the same spot. After all, a half rings up the coil mighty loud from anywhere nearby that close and flat on top.

I'm sure the she-carnie was faster than me, but per Lowbatt's Law of Relative Age Values, she is about 15 in carnie years, maybe 5 in meth/crack years so that would put her around 93 in normal human years. So not too threatening.

 

[outlaw007]

AWESOME HALF, WTG!

 

[Pocket Spill]

Great Finds! Nice surprise in that half!