kimsdad
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Gotta hurry up and post before this year's inaugural batch of margaritas kicks in and I stop making sense! I hope it's not too late!
Mark & I suited up and headed into the woods again. Within 15 minutes, we each had a silver George! Good deal!
Too bad the rest of the day was silver-free...
Then I started finding keys, and more keys, and more keys. I was tired of digging keys - it was easy to tell what they were in the ground - they all had the same unique reading. I finally quit when I found the key to the nurses room 
.... oooh la la? 
Then I found a medallion for the "Boyce Memorial" in Ottawa, ILL - "National Memorial to Wm. D. Boyce, Incorporator of the Boy Scouts of America, Dedicated June 21, 1941, Starved Rock Council"
Then a large tag that at first when it was covered in mud made me think for a second - "large cent?" No dice! The aluminum good luck token nearby reads "Tobis Woolf Rockwell 9116"
I also found a gilded Scoville button that Mark thinks is military - any further info, anyone?
By far the coolest find I had was a 1916 Illinois Motorbicycle license tag. I almost didn't dig it as it was shallow and rang up up like a can lid. If I hadn't found that compact so shallow on the last hunt here, I would have walked right over it.
I grabbed a toy measuring cup and cookie cutter from a kid's toy set, a 50's wheat, a cool drawer pull and the access door to a coin bank. The round thing with the hole in the middle is an aluminum "osmoplastic" tag with the date of 1953. I learned that Osmoplastic was a preservative method used on utility poles and the tag was nailed onto the pole after it was applied.
All in all, it was a good day, silver and some good relics. I hope you all have a lucrative weekend!
Neil
Gotta hurry up and post before this year's inaugural batch of margaritas kicks in and I stop making sense! I hope it's not too late!
Mark & I suited up and headed into the woods again. Within 15 minutes, we each had a silver George! Good deal!
Too bad the rest of the day was silver-free...
Then I started finding keys, and more keys, and more keys. I was tired of digging keys - it was easy to tell what they were in the ground - they all had the same unique reading. I finally quit when I found the key to the nurses room .... oooh la la? Then I found a medallion for the "Boyce Memorial" in Ottawa, ILL - "National Memorial to Wm. D. Boyce, Incorporator of the Boy Scouts of America, Dedicated June 21, 1941, Starved Rock Council"
Then a large tag that at first when it was covered in mud made me think for a second - "large cent?" No dice!
The aluminum good luck token nearby reads "Tobis Woolf Rockwell 9116" I also found a gilded Scoville button that Mark thinks is military - any further info, anyone?
By far the coolest find I had was a 1916 Illinois Motorbicycle license tag. I almost didn't dig it as it was shallow and rang up up like a can lid. If I hadn't found that compact so shallow on the last hunt here, I would have walked right over it.
I grabbed a toy measuring cup and cookie cutter from a kid's toy set, a 50's wheat, a cool drawer pull and the access door to a coin bank. The round thing with the hole in the middle is an aluminum "osmoplastic" tag with the date of 1953. I learned that Osmoplastic was a preservative method used on utility poles and the tag was nailed onto the pole after it was applied.
All in all, it was a good day, silver and some good relics. I hope you all have a lucrative weekend!
Neil
Congrats on the silver too 
