West Jersey Detecting
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Evans & Hassall CW Button and some more recent finds.
I got out with Elad today to hit some spot that I have had my eye on for a long time. The first two were public places, so I was not that optimistic about finding anything good.
As we pulled up to our first site, an 18th century house (that had been a museum during better economic times), there were two police cars parked behind a shed. I figured it would be good to ask permission to detect the spot. As I approached the cars, I realized one officer was snoozing, the other was reading GOLF magazine! Needless to say, they were startled as I approached. They had no problem with us detecting the site, and they quickly drove off, presumably to find a better place to nap.
As I was half expecting, the site had been detected (over and over?) before. We left for site two, another public place nearby, this one 17th century. The land surrounding the house had been filled in by the Army Corps of Engineers during the middle of the last century, making it so trashy it was virtually impossible to detect there, so we headed off for site three, an 18th century farm.
As we drove up to site three, we met "Sean", who said it would not be a problem to detect the recently plowed fields. We also ran into a Billy Goat. I Billy to join us, but he declined, saying "Nah" as he walked off. After a while a gentleman came up to us and asked if we had permission to detect there. I told him Sean assured us it was OK. He proceeded to tell us that he owned the farm, and Sean only boards his horse there. He told us that we would have to speak to his wife to get permission to detect, and she was at church.
. He also told us it was OK to detect some state owned land on the other side of the road, so off we went.
After a few minutes I got one of those typical button signals; the kind that sound like a shotgun shell, but they jump a little higher on the VDI. Out popped the beat up Federal Officer's button, my first true Civil War era military button. The back mark is Evans & Hassall/Phila, which is a scarce back mark. Too bad about the condition. I also found more mid 19th century flatware with the back mark "Hall & Elton", a britches buckle(?) and an unusual button with "PC & Co"on the front. The back is marked (?) _ F & CO. Any help is appreciated on what PC & Co. is .
I found the half a lock last week at another site, and would love to hear some type of ID on it. I also found one of my best condition plain front buttons (with no back mark). This one is most likely very early 19th century.
Thanks for looking!
Neil
I got out with Elad today to hit some spot that I have had my eye on for a long time. The first two were public places, so I was not that optimistic about finding anything good.
As we pulled up to our first site, an 18th century house (that had been a museum during better economic times), there were two police cars parked behind a shed. I figured it would be good to ask permission to detect the spot. As I approached the cars, I realized one officer was snoozing, the other was reading GOLF magazine! Needless to say, they were startled as I approached. They had no problem with us detecting the site, and they quickly drove off, presumably to find a better place to nap.
As I was half expecting, the site had been detected (over and over?) before. We left for site two, another public place nearby, this one 17th century. The land surrounding the house had been filled in by the Army Corps of Engineers during the middle of the last century, making it so trashy it was virtually impossible to detect there, so we headed off for site three, an 18th century farm.
As we drove up to site three, we met "Sean", who said it would not be a problem to detect the recently plowed fields. We also ran into a Billy Goat. I Billy to join us, but he declined, saying "Nah" as he walked off. After a while a gentleman came up to us and asked if we had permission to detect there. I told him Sean assured us it was OK. He proceeded to tell us that he owned the farm, and Sean only boards his horse there. He told us that we would have to speak to his wife to get permission to detect, and she was at church.
. He also told us it was OK to detect some state owned land on the other side of the road, so off we went.After a few minutes I got one of those typical button signals; the kind that sound like a shotgun shell, but they jump a little higher on the VDI. Out popped the beat up Federal Officer's button, my first true Civil War era military button. The back mark is Evans & Hassall/Phila, which is a scarce back mark. Too bad about the condition. I also found more mid 19th century flatware with the back mark "Hall & Elton", a britches buckle(?) and an unusual button with "PC & Co"on the front. The back is marked (?) _ F & CO. Any help is appreciated on what PC & Co. is .
I found the half a lock last week at another site, and would love to hear some type of ID on it. I also found one of my best condition plain front buttons (with no back mark). This one is most likely very early 19th century.
Thanks for looking!
Neil
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keep up the great work
And the PC&Co button! I hope you can get that one ID'd! That a good one too! 
