Hit 14 on the 14th

[McCDig]

I'm very pleased to report to my TreasureNet friends that the Indian Head streak that began on December 1st was extended today to 7 consecutive hunts at this site with one or more Indians. For those who've followed this trek, you'll recall that some days it was as many as four Indians. Today I found just one coin amongst some truly vintage targets here, but it is a gem of an 1868 Indian Head cent!

Other targets included two tabs used possibly for shirt sleeve or collar, a man's shirt tab with distinctive horse tack motif of twin horse shoes and buckles, a lady's pin with missing centerpiece, and a badly decayed pocket knife from which I salvage the tortoise shell side-piece. Another productive hunt over two hours at what has become my new favorite Baltimore City park.

Thanks for checking out the pics!

 

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[against the wind]

That is one sweet Indian. Congratulations
What magic potion are you using to clean them?

 

[RVRoamer74]

Dadgum Museum there !!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on another injun

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Art! She's a pretty one at that!

 

[McCDig]

Thx RVRoamer66! Yes, many personal effects from the turn of the century. I'm amazed at what continues to come up.

 

[McCDig]

Thx ATW! I would say that 1868 had only minor corrosion out of the ground, so I was starting the process with a decent specimen. It wasn't green out of the ground and the soil seemed pretty embedded, so I decide to put it in some warmed peroxide for 10 minutes. Once out, I brushed it lightly under warm water, dried it and then soaked it in olive oil for ten minutes and took it out and worked the oil over the surface. This one is about the best I could have hoped for as a finished product. It would be hard to distinguish from a circulated coin. Due to the minimal wear, it could have been dropped in the 1870s.

 

[BTV Digger]

Congrats on a fine looking IH sir! Rarely do they come out of the ground looking like that. Let's set a goal for 10 hunts in a row now!

John

 

[McCDig]

John, I'm "down" with that goal, as in detector and shovel down to the ground and target. Already have a search mode in mind when I return.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice job on the continued streak...keep it going!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Professor! Here's to Hunt No. 8, may it be flush in Indians!

 

[Tradertom]

Congratulations! Keep digging and you might find the whole tribe.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Tradertom! Looking for that lost Indian of 1877, a very elusive ground dweller.

 

[Chizzy]

Those are vintage finds, McCDig!! You're definitely in a good area and have hit the 1890 to 1900 era layer...........
Congrats on extending your IHP streak and you did it with such a beauty, to boot!!

 

[McCDig]

Thanks Chizzy! Makes me wonder what I'm missing. Anyway, looks like I'll get back there on Wednesday next week, hoping to keep the streak alive.

 

[doninbrewster]

I dig a lot of Indians, but that's a great 1868. Nice going!

 

[park pirate]

Real nice IH, congrats...

 

[McCDig]

Thx Don! Didn't look like much right out of the ground, but it obviously had great potential.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Tony! This park was started in the 1850s and up to that time had been a family estate from the late 1700s.
I've found one colonial era coin here. Always wonder if that high 90s signal I'm digging is the next Spanish silver.

 

[Jamie1993]

Great looking finds. That is one nice IH. Hope you can keep the streak going.