Folks, Please share some of your past finds....the more the merrier.

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

I thought since a lot of people may be doing the isolation thingy it wouldn't be a bad idea to start a thread where we could share some of our past finds.

I'll get the ball rolling. Sterling silver stamp safe. Bring em on....coins, jewelry, relics, buttons, etc...

 

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[WannaDig3687]

I have never seen a folding key before. Neat.

 

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[swimmer]

Found these while I live in Mission Viejo at various local parks and beaches
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[eyemustdigtreasure]

My first silver in town.
A real Heart-breaker, huh?

It could have been 1965, too...!
So, I'm very happy with that dime...!

 

[bill from lachine]

Sanchip,

Well done and great story. Thanks for sharing like you what's the point of finding the neat stuff unless we get to share it with like minded people.

I've had the good fortune to either meet or have dealings online with some of the greats of detecting both beach and on land.

Most of my items don't have a great monetary value but still neat and fun to share.

I figured with a lot of us being shut down might as well share some of our trinkets to lighten the load somewhat for everyone.

 

[bill from lachine]

eyemustdigtreasure,

Welcome to the thread well done on your silver wishing you many more.

 

[PetesPockets55]

N.Y. Belt Plate ...beat up by the plow found in N.Y.
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Still a gorgeous plate.
(And yeah I agree, those colonial plows showed no mercy!)

ps. So many fantastic finds from everyone I keep going into a trance and forgetting to hit the like button.
Here's to everyone I may have missed.

 

[PetesPockets55]

Found these while I live in Mission Viejo at various local parks and beaches
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You have enough rings there to open your own pawn shop or jewelry store! And that image is from 9 years ago!!

 

[xcopperstax]

Thank you Bill, for starting this great thread. So much fun to see and share our finds with one another. That's what it's all about. A find is great, but you gotta show it to somebody. That's where the real fun is. Otherwise, you're like some weirdo mumbling miser, holed up talking to himself. Like a dear old friend of mine said, "I know I can't have everything, I just want to see it!" Although I'll eventually run outta stuff to show everybody, I hope this goes on forever!

Now, with that drivel out of the way, my son and i were walking a creek out in the middle of nowhere, looking for arrowheads. I was about 20 feet ahead of him when he asked, "Did you see this?" I turned around and he was pointing at what, at first, looked like a algae covered Clorox jug. As I got closer, it was like "Holy crap!" I had been so focused on the bottom that I walked right by it, one of the prettiest, mintest Crawford County jugs I'd ever seen. Although I felt like a doofus, I was so glad that I did miss it, so he could find something to fuel his fire for old stuff. The dirt road back up a ways had washed out in winter floods, which is all that could explain it setting there like it was.

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A couple of weeks later, while he was in Savannah with his gal, I walked another creek and spotted this. I knew what it looked like, but figured from past experience that it would be broke, missing the top or handle, or have a hole in it. I stuck my hands in the sand and started feeling around, getting a little more excited now. I got my hands up under it and lifted it out (another lesson that I had learned the hard way is to never pick a jug up by the handle, especially when it's full of sand and gravel). Two perfect jugs in two weeks. I couldn't believe it and couldn't wait to show my son.

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Here they are side by side, and being the selfless young man that he is, he put his in the cabinet with my junk.

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Thanks for looking and listening!

wow those are truly special thanks for sharing the finds!!! What time period do you think those stoneware jugs date to? That cabinet of junk looks pretty amazing! Bottle digger dreams right there!

 

[sandchip]

Wow those are truly special thanks for sharing the finds!!! What time period do you think those stoneware jugs date to? That cabinet of junk looks pretty amazing! Bottle digger dreams right there!

The jugs would date to around 1870 or so. An elderly black lady gave the wardrobe to Daddy back in the 70s. It had been modified since it was built, and possibly the design changed during its construction in the mid-1800s. We tried to figure out what it looked like originally, had 2 or 3 experts in early furniture look at it, but nobody could figure it out. It sat in Daddy's shop collecting dust and spider webs for 40 years, so I finally decided to do something, right or wrong. I removed the door, which had at some point been moved from the bottom to the top of the opening, had some 1/2" glass shelves cut for it and put LED rope lights inside. The only alteration was the drilling of a 1/4" hole in the inside corner for the wire to pass through. The piece across the bottom wasn't original, so I found a piece of lumber that we had kept off an 1850s house and cut it to match the design on the lower sides. I tried my best, but I couldn't quite match that old finish. I joined it to the vertical face pieces with biscuits and put fakeass pegs to make it look like the original mortise and tenon. Nobody would've known until now since I've opened my big mouth. Also used old cut finish nails collected from the trim in old houses to fasten it to the cabinet. Even though I didn't know how it looked originally, I didn't want to butcher it either. Thanks for the kind comments!

 

[terry g]

If corona virus hadn't shut me down I would be here !! Found this site on rumors about a pirate fort from the islanders last year....big guns in the ground...all different sizes and caliber (pirates) !! Was supposed to be at the site these last couple weeks....Corona virus has me shut down with all my detectors and equipment stranded in the bahamas with our boat and me stuck here in florida !! Not good !!
Either way it's all gonna stay right there....this could well be one of the coolest sites I'll ever get to search !!

I envy you with that potential site and being in the Bahamas too boot. The canons on there own must be worth something.
We have fond memories of the Bahamas having spent some time there in 2002...Cat island mainly.
This Corona thing has screwed things up for everyone..

 

[terry g]

Hey Bill thanks for starting this thread ...These are eye ball finds from a visit to the Island of St Helena in the Atlantic ocean in 1995. They would have locked me up if i started swinging a MD there...lucky i did not have one.They have been lying in a locker and have not been cleaned since the day they where found. These where possibly used for target practice as some showed signs of damage and there where some intact and broken bottles lying around. The troops stationed here must have been rely bored having to look after Napoleon.We departed the island the next day, it would have been nice to explore a bit more.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Bill, my good friend you are doing great job💎😎 I found cannonball few years ago🏝🙂

 

[Rookster]

Union Army drum tensioner

 

[Noah_D]

Here's one of my better hunts of last year... I found these at a 1910 house but I think there was an older house somewhere very near by. The copper is an 1834 KWIV.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Union Army drum tensioner

Rook, I am positive that was my Great, Great, Great Grandfather's. You should just drop it in the mail to me today.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Here's one of my better hunts of last year... I found these at a 1910 house but I think there was an older house somewhere very near by. The copper is an 1834 KWIV.

I want to find a crotal bell so bad! Bill told me that this was a part of one that I found. Now it is on my list.

 

[lifeisgoood1228]

Some of my past finds!

While rock hounding I found Indian tools and a few arrowheads!

 

[bill from lachine]

Hamid,

Thanks buddy with this virus thingy going on we all need a break from the seriousness most of us are under.

Your friend Bill

Bill, my good friend you are doing great job I found cannonball few years ago

 

[bill from lachine]

Terry G,

Thanks for the story and finds. A couple of nice artillery buttons in there I see.

 

[bill from lachine]

lifeisgood,

First off welcome to the thead and thank you very much for sharing your native stone artifacts with us. They're top drawer as the Brits say.