Ronson
Jr. Member
- Jul 17, 2014
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- Garrett Ace 350
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Found a truck! And a doodad! (...which turns out to be a pump organ reed!)
A very small, very demolished truck, about 5.25" long, minus whatever sat on back. Looks like something you'd see in an automobile graveyard, and that's *after* I cleaned it up and bent it back into some semblance of shape!
Then again, it's better than the nails I've been finding up at the farm, hunting around where that long-gone house once stood. I was able to get away for a couple of hours yesterday and concentrated on digging only solid repeatable signals around where I believe the front porch area to have been located. I think I'm getting better at this. I think.
I know it's not much, compared to the fistfuls of ancient Roman coins that Crusader fella is pulling out of the ground. Actually, not much, compared to the average amount of trash drug out of the nearby lake by any other neophyte, such as myself.
But it's an additional small piece of a past life, and that thrills me like crazy. And the fact that this little truck, which I *think* was a 1930s pressed steel Marx or Wyandotte, appears to have been a wind-up, really makes me curious... I'd guess that the wind-ups were more expensive than the push-power cars and trucks, so I'm again wondering about the family that lived there, long ago.
Oh, and I found another curious little doodad, just over 2" long and 0.07" thick, a bit over 1/16", maybe one of y'all will know what it is... when I pulled it out of the ground, I thought it was part of a Sharps rifle sight or something similar, then I thought it was part of a surveyor's compass... then I was stumped. Until my 11-year-old daughter looked at it and said, "I think that's a hair clip." And she might be right. It had a thin tongue/flange/something that's broken off, but that might've allowed it to clip onto something... if not a hair clip, maybe a tie clip? Only other clues are that it's non-magnetic, had very little corrosion, has a tiny capital "E" on it, and is (I think) made of copper, just based on the bit of fresh metal I can see, where that flange broke off.
Also, the cows felt I was usurping their shade tree.
Thanks for the gander!
-Ronson
A very small, very demolished truck, about 5.25" long, minus whatever sat on back. Looks like something you'd see in an automobile graveyard, and that's *after* I cleaned it up and bent it back into some semblance of shape!
Then again, it's better than the nails I've been finding up at the farm, hunting around where that long-gone house once stood. I was able to get away for a couple of hours yesterday and concentrated on digging only solid repeatable signals around where I believe the front porch area to have been located. I think I'm getting better at this. I think.
I know it's not much, compared to the fistfuls of ancient Roman coins that Crusader fella is pulling out of the ground. Actually, not much, compared to the average amount of trash drug out of the nearby lake by any other neophyte, such as myself.
But it's an additional small piece of a past life, and that thrills me like crazy. And the fact that this little truck, which I *think* was a 1930s pressed steel Marx or Wyandotte, appears to have been a wind-up, really makes me curious... I'd guess that the wind-ups were more expensive than the push-power cars and trucks, so I'm again wondering about the family that lived there, long ago.
Oh, and I found another curious little doodad, just over 2" long and 0.07" thick, a bit over 1/16", maybe one of y'all will know what it is... when I pulled it out of the ground, I thought it was part of a Sharps rifle sight or something similar, then I thought it was part of a surveyor's compass... then I was stumped. Until my 11-year-old daughter looked at it and said, "I think that's a hair clip." And she might be right. It had a thin tongue/flange/something that's broken off, but that might've allowed it to clip onto something... if not a hair clip, maybe a tie clip? Only other clues are that it's non-magnetic, had very little corrosion, has a tiny capital "E" on it, and is (I think) made of copper, just based on the bit of fresh metal I can see, where that flange broke off.
Also, the cows felt I was usurping their shade tree.
Thanks for the gander!
-Ronson
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