tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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The other day I went to a set of homes owned by the city to do some detecting. The city administrator gave me permission to detect here and I have had a little bit of luck. This time I ended up with 35 coins with a face value of $2.32. I also found a real cool child’s toy spur with everything except for the leather that was missing, a key, the fly wheel from a wind up clock, a coal mine chit number 113, what looks like a brass game piece, part of a piece of older style jewelry, an aluminum good luck token and 3 wheaties, 1935, 1953, 1958.
The spur is a cast piece with an ferrous chain. It would have had a leather strap that went on the back of the boot and fastened onto the buttons on either side, but it has rotted away or been lost. One point of the rowel is broken and the joining point for one end of the chain is gone, but otherwise it’s in pretty good shape. They were made in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s.
The good luck charm is made of aluminum. It is the kind of thing you used to find at all the fairs and carnivals. There was a machine that you put your money in and then chose the letters you wanted on it and it made your good luck charm. They made them in the 40s and 50s. This one has the town name, MD for Maryland on it and 1953 so I’m going to presume that it was made in 1953. It looks like there should be something else like a name, but that is the part of the charm where the aluminum has been eaten away and I don’t know anyway to clean it up any better.
The brass item looks like a game piece. I thought at first it was part of a lamp or something like that. But there are no marks on the top or bottom where it would been joined to something else and no holes. I don’t know what game it might be from if it is a game piece. If anyone recognizes what it is and can help with a positive ID your help would be appreciated.
Yesterday I went to the Boy Scout camp to do a little more detecting as always plenty of tent pegs I did find 100 tent pegs. I left them at camp for them. I also found 110 coins with the face value of $12.34, a stainless mess kit fork, a bunch of sinkers, a rope tensioner, a neckerchief slide, a cob copy, a medallion of something, a 1941 wheatie and of course the ever present pop tabs and aluminum foil. This particular campsite seems to have had a lot of people who thought they should bury their aluminum cans so I have found over a dozen so far and i am only done a third of the site. Normally i might find 1 or 2 in an entire site, but not his many.
Another thing i usually find and don’t mention is melted aluminum chunks. Scouts like to make tinfoil dinners and cook things in foil on the fire and when they do sometimes when they’re done with their meal they ball the foil up and throw it in the fire. It melts and makes these little chunks that give you mid tone and high tones. Over the years the firepits have been moved and when they remove the ashes they spread the chunks around so you can find the stuff everywhere. It gets to be a real pain sometimes as you dig piece after piece of melted aluminum. I have a bucket of the stuff and will have to see if my scrap dealer will take it off my hands.
So 2 more days of swingin and diggin. Some interesting finds and gas money. Just enough to keep me going. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
The spur is a cast piece with an ferrous chain. It would have had a leather strap that went on the back of the boot and fastened onto the buttons on either side, but it has rotted away or been lost. One point of the rowel is broken and the joining point for one end of the chain is gone, but otherwise it’s in pretty good shape. They were made in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s.
The good luck charm is made of aluminum. It is the kind of thing you used to find at all the fairs and carnivals. There was a machine that you put your money in and then chose the letters you wanted on it and it made your good luck charm. They made them in the 40s and 50s. This one has the town name, MD for Maryland on it and 1953 so I’m going to presume that it was made in 1953. It looks like there should be something else like a name, but that is the part of the charm where the aluminum has been eaten away and I don’t know anyway to clean it up any better.
The brass item looks like a game piece. I thought at first it was part of a lamp or something like that. But there are no marks on the top or bottom where it would been joined to something else and no holes. I don’t know what game it might be from if it is a game piece. If anyone recognizes what it is and can help with a positive ID your help would be appreciated.
Yesterday I went to the Boy Scout camp to do a little more detecting as always plenty of tent pegs I did find 100 tent pegs. I left them at camp for them. I also found 110 coins with the face value of $12.34, a stainless mess kit fork, a bunch of sinkers, a rope tensioner, a neckerchief slide, a cob copy, a medallion of something, a 1941 wheatie and of course the ever present pop tabs and aluminum foil. This particular campsite seems to have had a lot of people who thought they should bury their aluminum cans so I have found over a dozen so far and i am only done a third of the site. Normally i might find 1 or 2 in an entire site, but not his many.
Another thing i usually find and don’t mention is melted aluminum chunks. Scouts like to make tinfoil dinners and cook things in foil on the fire and when they do sometimes when they’re done with their meal they ball the foil up and throw it in the fire. It melts and makes these little chunks that give you mid tone and high tones. Over the years the firepits have been moved and when they remove the ashes they spread the chunks around so you can find the stuff everywhere. It gets to be a real pain sometimes as you dig piece after piece of melted aluminum. I have a bucket of the stuff and will have to see if my scrap dealer will take it off my hands.
So 2 more days of swingin and diggin. Some interesting finds and gas money. Just enough to keep me going. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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