OutdoorAdv
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- Apr 16, 2013
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- XP Deus,
GPX 4500,
Equinox 800,
AT Max
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I had Monday off and decided last minute to get out for a bit before I had to do chores at home. Instead of sifting, I decided to take my new Minelab GPX4500 with me. That thing is a beast, however you have to be prepared to dig nails. Deep nails sound so sweet, but the shallow ones are easy to determine. Anyway, 20 nails in I opened a plug, removed two nails and the GPX kept telling me there was more. I popped a chunk out of the sidewall and the holed LC came out. I'm pretty certain I opened the plug because of the nails and unmasked the LC by mistake... but who cares, I'll take it! This is in an area I have hammered many times with many machines. I switch over to the Deus after a couple hours to give myself a bit of a break. The pewter buttons and various other items turned up with the Deus.
This is actually my first holed coin! It fooled me for a minute when I pulled it from the dirt because for a split second I thought the hole was a missing shank. There's a hunk of crud obscuring the last part of the date. I'm more excited that it has a hole in it than just being a regular toasty copper.
This .32 rimfire Henry shell casing was a nice surprise. This caliber was introduced in 1860 by Smith and Wesson and at this site, it was probably fired during the Civil War era. I don't pay much attention to shell casing typically, but when I see the "H" I always save them. The small iron buckle above it has some silver plating left on it.
This piece of an iron shoe buckle turned up. During electrolysis I noticed that it had an "applied pewter" front on it. I recently preserved a complete iron frame for Scrappy and his also had an applied pewter front.
I got really excited about the cast pewter with the design on it.... when it came from the dirt I could swear I saw a bust on it, but since it was in such rough shape, I packed it in dirt and waited until I got home. Turned out to be flowers! Still better than the other cast pewter I got, which turned out to be plain.
I had found another piece to the brass item in the same area. I thought it was a buckle frame piece, but I'm starting to think it might go to something else.
The nails and other zapped iron items going into hot wax to seal them after preservation.
Thanks for looking and Happy Hunting everyone!
This is actually my first holed coin! It fooled me for a minute when I pulled it from the dirt because for a split second I thought the hole was a missing shank. There's a hunk of crud obscuring the last part of the date. I'm more excited that it has a hole in it than just being a regular toasty copper.
This .32 rimfire Henry shell casing was a nice surprise. This caliber was introduced in 1860 by Smith and Wesson and at this site, it was probably fired during the Civil War era. I don't pay much attention to shell casing typically, but when I see the "H" I always save them. The small iron buckle above it has some silver plating left on it.
This piece of an iron shoe buckle turned up. During electrolysis I noticed that it had an "applied pewter" front on it. I recently preserved a complete iron frame for Scrappy and his also had an applied pewter front.
I got really excited about the cast pewter with the design on it.... when it came from the dirt I could swear I saw a bust on it, but since it was in such rough shape, I packed it in dirt and waited until I got home. Turned out to be flowers! Still better than the other cast pewter I got, which turned out to be plain.
I had found another piece to the brass item in the same area. I thought it was a buckle frame piece, but I'm starting to think it might go to something else.
The nails and other zapped iron items going into hot wax to seal them after preservation.
Thanks for looking and Happy Hunting everyone!
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