Münze Jäger
Tenderfoot
- Nov 11, 2012
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Hi,First of all this is my first post to this site. I live in Northeastern lower Michigan and would welcome meeting fellow treasure hunters in this area. Here are the non-ferrous things I found at an old logging camp.I recovered an ax head,pieces of crosscut saw,high nickel cast and other iron too. I did not spend much time there at all cause the plan was to check out a ghost town. I have a knack of spotting suspicious areas and just had to stop and take a walk.What I found was an unsearched old place that dates back to around 1900. Many of these sites are only discernable because of rectangular depressions in the ground and this is because,around here,all that slash that those lumberjacks left on the ground would most of the time catch fire and burn so there is no wood at all.The big iron was mostly picked up ,if not all for WWI then what was left was rounded up for WWII.Now about the stuff in the pictures,and for you gun enthusiasts theres a story here. First the big copper thing is what is left of a wash tub that they used to heat up water in for washing cloths.Sometimes they are all copper,this one had steel sides and only the bottom remains.The large spoon is cool because its initialed and helps put a person in the picture. The big round fancy copper object is trim part from a lamp shade that I am supposing was made of glass. The bent brass thing says C.T.HAM MFG ROCHESTER,NY U.S.A No 2-17&20 COLD BLAST and is from a lantern. Now the empty shell casings. Now I dont often consider these empties finds cause they seem to be everywhere but this is different.First is a modern .35 Remington. It was not found near the others.Next is a .38-55 W.R.A. It could kill a bear and was itro'd in 1876 by Ballard and went out of mainline around 1940. The next two are quite rare being marked .25-.35 W.C.R.& W.R.A. and a .25-.36 U.M.C.MARLIN. The .25-.35 was a blackpowder cartridge,hardly good on deer.They both were out of fashion around 1920! I checked,these go for about $17.00 a pop! Also the .25-.36 wont fit the rifle chambered for the .25-35 but .25-35 will chamber in the .25-.36 ! Though it is ...wrong to do so. The lumberjack did it though!The smaller of the two was fireformed to the bigger size! same firing pin dent! How cool is that? A story found in discarded casings! Expensive ones! By the way,the ghost town just had way too much trash for me to deal with but that camp sure was fun.
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