I found all the finds except for pics with the 45 merc in them in the park and the pics with the merc I found in the woods. The compass works great, especially since I dismantled it and cleaned and reassembled. The merc was down about 5 inches.
Thanks for all the great replies everyone, I don't know if I ever posted this here, it's the compass I found last year, it was about 6" deep on the side of a steep hill, the soil is like peat in the spot where I found it, as a matter of fact in 1900 the spot was being harvested for peat.