Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy. Seated tonight.

[Dirty Digger Doug]

So after lunch I went to a park near the house. This park has been hammered by everyone with a metal detector. But I had a couple hours before the wife got home tonight so off I went. First thing I popped was a Rosie, followed by a silver treasure chest pendent. Little did I know what treasure I was to find. My next signal was crisp and hi toned. Hoping for a silver was I surprised to to be holding my first seated dime, 1889. Next I popped a gold gilded cuff link I believe. Shortly after that up came another Rosie. So after this mornings hunt I ended up with a silver quarter, mercury dime, seated dime, two Rosie's, a silver treasure chest. Best day ever but it doesn't stop there. I also got a RR check tag. It's hard to read but I believe to to be from the F & PM RR Co. I don't want today to end.






My quadfecta for the week. Featuring my first barber and seated dimes.

 

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[mikefromIllinois]

Congrats on your first seated and the other silvers. I would keep hunting the heck out of this park.

 

[mrmastadon]

What a hunt - congrats! That Barber is crisp!

 

[Squirrel322]

Congrats man! That is a very nice day

Was this you first time detecting that park? Regardless, I have two words for you: GO BACK. There’s more.

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Doug, for a park that's been "hammered by everyone with a metal detector", I'd say you did incredibly well!
Your Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad baggage tag is very interesting.

Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad
The F&PM was chartered on January 22, 1857, as the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway for the purpose of constructing an east-west railway line on a route, for which a federal land grant was offered, from Flint, Michigan to Lake Michigan at Pere Marquette (now Ludington, Michigan). The early promoters of the road were George M. Dewey and E.H. Hazelton of Flint, with Dewey serving as the first president of the F&PM. Construction started in 1859 in East Saginaw. A more energetic management took charge in 1860 when Captain Eber Brock Ward of Detroit, a prominent lumberman, vessel owner, and steel manufacturer, was elected to the presidency of the F&PM. Service began on January 20, 1862, on the 26.1-mile section from East Saginaw south to Mount Morris. In December 1864, the F&PM gained access to Detroit via trackage rights over the Flint and Holly Railroad and the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad.

Construction westward from Saginaw commenced in 1866 with the first section of 20 miles to Midland, opened December 1, 1867. In the Annual Report to the Stockholders of December 31, 1867, the secretary of the F&PM, Henry C. Potter, called for the continued building of the line toward Lake Michigan: "The importance and magnitude of the lumber traffic on the Muskegon and Manistee Rivers urge this company to speedy construction on its road west." On September 2, 1868, the F&PM was consolidated with the Flint and Holly Railroad. Besides adding a key segment of trackage to the growing F&PM system, the merger brought into the F&PM the Crapo family - Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan in 1865-69, and his son, William W. Crapo, later president of the F&PM. An extension of 6.5 miles from Midland to Averill was completed on October 25, 1868, giving the F&PM 60 miles of route west from Flint and entitling the company to 76,300 acres in land grants; since 1862 the company had received a total of 307,200 acres.

Slowly the railroad snaked its way through the forests of central Michigan. It was completed to Clare, 24.4 miles west of Averill, in November 1870; another 15.6 miles was finished in March 1871. With the completion of 22 miles to Reed City in December 1871, the F&PM made a connection with the north-south main line of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway. The line was now 48.4 miles from its goal of Ludington. On June 4, 1872, the F&PM was consolidated with the Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railroad, the Bay City and East Saginaw Railroad, the Flint River Railroad (Flint to Otter Lake), and the Cass River Railroad. On July 1, 1879, the F&PM went into receivership, owing $1,200,000 in unpaid interest on bonds with bonded interest accumulating at a rate of $385,000 a year. Gross revenues had declined every year since the Panic of 1873, a situation exacerbated by the crash of the lumber market in July 1877. The company remained in receivership until September 30, 1880, when it was reorganized.

Dave

 

[Elvis]

Sweet silver!!!!

 

[Dirty Digger Doug]

Antiquarian. Thank you for all the information. I would like to clean the tag up more but I'm afraid the letters might come off. I'm not sure that they are debossed or painted on.

 

[Lenrac2]

I hope to someday have a day that sweet! Nice haul!!

 

[Dirty Digger Doug]

I checked an area where I thought nobody else would check. The most unlikely spot to find anything when you first look at a site.

 

[Shakakka]

This park has been hammered by everyone with a metal detector.

Were they using BATTERIES?

 

[DigToChina]

If that?s a hammered park, I?m the King of England! [emoji23][emoji23]

Get in there and hammer it now before someone else does!

 

[erfranks]

Congrats, great finds!!

 

[scruggs]

Wow! What a hunt you had!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your first Seated coin and the rest of your silvers. To me, your find of the day is that Railroad Baggage tag, (but I have found Seated and Barber coins - I've never found a RR tag). Great finds.

 

[Megalodon]

Congrats on a nice hunt.

When you said "hammered", I assumed you meant it had been hit by other Th'ers. Perhaps they were using actual hammers...

 

[Silvermonkey]

For a hammered park, you did really, really well! Congrats on all of the silvers and other goodies. I'm guessing that there is a lot more to be found there.

 

[oldmxrat]

Wow, very exciting, great recoveries, congrats!

 

[Tpmetal]

Great job! congrats on the seated

 

[thrifty76now]

A beautiful seated ,and a nice haul of other silver.