New Site Produces A nearly Perfect Semi-Key Date Indian and Another Oldie

[crazyjarhead]

Good evening everyone. Hope everyone is doing fine and enjoying the final days of Summer. As for me I sure have lately. I hunted an area which I have overlooked before and I don't know why. This baseball field has been around since baseball began, as my father recently told me. My Father, Mother and Great Grandfather and 2 Great Uncles went to school here. I have hunted the surrounding grounds but nothing real old. Lot's of wheat's but no silver. The ground has been excavated a little when the 2 schools were razed in the early 70's. I remember playing basketball here in the 60's and 70's. I was able to find a picture of the high School but not the Grade School. My Grandmother (95) has pictures but she is not doing well and has been in the hospital 3 times this year. I'll try to obtain better pictures later.

Anyway, I finally realized that the baseball field might be the best place to hunt. And it was. Not much trash just pull tabs and some foil here and there. The IH's and wheat's were down 6 inches or better. Signal was iffy on one and I only had a beep going one way. So I pinpointed and dug. Fist IH was the 1874. The other was 1887. The 1887 is not as good as the 1874. Liberty is clearly visible however my picture doesn't do it a whole lot of justice. I have macro zoom but my kitchen light is not helping either. I included a picture from 1928 of the Woodstock Tiger's baseball team. I also included a picture of the high school. The school was a fortress as was most old structures in the 1800's. Why did they have to knock it down Beautiful castle

I also found some early wheat's 1916, 1920, 1926, 1929. Found some modern clad, an old pocket knife at 6 inches and an old bullet casing.
Thanks for looking. Ron

 

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[crazyjarhead]

Sweet Indians! Congrats!

Just a note on the old photos. The reason you don't see alot of smiles is that the pictures took so long to take that people had to use a facial expression that they could hold without moving for a long period. They had to sit very still, so as not to blur the photo. The older the photo, basically the longer it took. By the time pictures were taken with a short shutter time it had become normal not to smile.

Congrats again!
Good Luck,
Mark

Thanks mark for the info. That makes sense of it all

 

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[artzstuff1]

Great story and finds as well!!!! really makes you wonder dont it ,,why in the hell they tore all that stuff down ,,, gone for ever ,, oh well its all for the MONEY!!!!!

THANKS

ART

 

[crazyjarhead]

Great story and finds as well!!!! really makes you wonder dont it ,,why in the hell they tore all that stuff down ,,, gone for ever ,, oh well its all for the MONEY!!!!!

THANKS

ART

Thanks Art. The students now and have been going to triad School 5 miles away. The town of Woodstock has gone from 3 banks to none and so on. No rail (it's gone too) Lincolns body came through this town. No livestock auctions, no tomato canning factory and the list goes on

 

[Dr. Ace]

Great coins. Congrats!! Those look great. I wish mine looked as good.

Hopefully you will find more in that area.

HH!

Dr. Ace

 

[ModernMiner]

Ron,
IH's on a baseball field! Who would have thought. That was the Field of Dreams for sure.
Those cleaned up beautifully. I need to stop using ammonia and start doing what you do.
Thanks for those cool old pictures. I learned something new here today, and that is why no one was ever smiling in those old pictures. Very interesting.
Congrats buddy,
MM
P.S. 1874 was my very first IH. Man was I excited.

 

[relic lover]

Nice job finding and cleaning! I am still waiting for my 2 old coin in one hunt.

 

[jb58]

always enjoy your posts-theres a picture behind every story. make you wonder who roamed those hallowed halls! great finds jarhead! your an ace with that ace.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Ron,
IH's on a baseball field! Who would have thought. That was the Field of Dreams for sure.
Those cleaned up beautifully. I need to stop using ammonia and start doing what you do.
Thanks for those cool old pictures. I learned something new here today, and that is why no one was ever smiling in those old pictures. Very interesting.
Congrats buddy,
MM
P.S. 1874 was my very first IH. Man was I excited.

Thanks Doug. I don't know what your soil conditions are like down there but up here most of the IH's I dig are green at first and clean up real easily with little effort. I know I'm lucky unlike some other soil conditions else where. My first LC if you recall was a beauty as well. The soil here is dark and very fine. Like I said in my post. My father had hinted me on how the grounds were to include the ball park. I have hunted around it but not on the playing field. There is too much trash and modern clad to get through to the older stuff. I just haven't worked it enough. No I will start to hunt it more in hopes of finding more.

 

[Dman]

Way to go. Really nice finds.

 

[garthbfan169]

They are awesome crazy Congrats!!

 

[crazyjarhead]

always enjoy your posts-theres a picture behind every story. make you wonder who roamed those hallowed halls! great finds jarhead! your an ace with that ace.

I just try to draw-in the readers to that particular time. It's like reading a good book. Pictures make it more interesting more than words. I know that I like to read post's with lot's of pictures.

 

[ashleysflyr]

Those indians are awesome!

~Tom

 

[Goes4ever]

great finds Ron!

 

[crazyjarhead]

great finds Ron!

Thanks Terry. Good luck today at the 1859 house

 

[Golden1]

Super nice find Ron! And in awesome shape

Congrats

G1

 

[gold nuggets]

Those are some of the cleanst IHs that I
have seen posted Ron. Congrats on some
sweet finds. Gold Nuggets

 

[crazyjarhead]

Those are some of the cleanst IHs that I
have seen posted Ron. Congrats on some
sweet finds. Gold Nuggets

Thanks GN. But actually I have an 1865 that's even better. One of my first digs at the J.A.McDonald house last year

 

[halfdime]

Some great finds there! What would have been really cool was if one of those ballplayers had made it to the bigs!

 

[wyattrr]

Nice Digs as usual...WTG CJH...Congrats and HH

 

[daytondigger]

Wow Ron, that 1874 injun is a real beauty!! Congrats on some great finds. It seems like that ball field looks familiar.