Frodov
Bronze Member
Silver Hearts and Micro Carts
First day Vacation finds. Hello everyone, hope you are all enjoying the fine weather of late and have or will be getting out to do some detecting of your own. Today marks the first day of a long awaited vacation from work, for me anyway. My wife Val still had to attend a seminar this evening so I had to entertain myself after getting home from taking her to a doctor’s appointment in the next state earlier this morning. Of course I’m looking forward to heading off to the beach and possibly getting in some detecting in the sand later this week, but for today I settled for a more familiar haunt. My venue of choice today was a nearby park complex that is home to acres and acres of soccer fields. And hunting was good.
No matter how good or bad the hunt might be, there will always be the usual suspects found, pull tabs, can slaw and bottle caps, not to mention the other unidentifiable metal trash that gets ingested and spit out of the lawn mowers that try to keep the grass of the park tamed enough to play ball on. I didn’t even bother with pictures of that stuff today, but I probably collected and carted off (to the nearest trash barrel) about two or three pounds worth of trash. I also found some not so usual finds for this park.. toys. Toy soldiers (only one shown, and it’s PLASTIC!!! Eyeball find really), Toy cars.. tiny tiny tiny toy cars.. Micro’s even! There was a set of trucks (skateboard wheels) from a toy skate board.. duh.. I found a bunch of zipper pulls too. Odd for the grass, not so unusual at playgrounds and tot lots, but weird for the soccer fields. And there was one little tiny little button.. or snap.. looked like a four leaf clover.
I found some bling too! A couple of Pendants, one being a rhinestone guitar.
There were a couple of B’s and a tiny little enamel painted flower. There was a gumball machine ring (aluminum) and one little bracelet that turned out to be silver! Cool!
The bracelet must have lost a link from the chain connecting the heart to the rest of the chain. The bar is inserted through the heart to affix it to the wearer. Closeup photos show that it’s stamped with hallmarks and 925. Not sure what the HD/D means though. “hot diamonds” ?
I dug up this rather ratty looking remains of a medallion or pendant that deffinately has a soccer theme going on with it.
Then there was the second mouse found today. The first mouse was of course the Chuck E Cheese token shown with the “bling” earlier.. but I also found another very familiar little mouse on the face of this tiny little watch I dug up.
The watch might have been cute, but it’s definitely NOT a Timex.. it’s not still ticking.
Along with a pretty good haul of clad today I also unearthed two Wheat Pennies. One 1945 D and one 1958 D.
And of course there was the clad. I’ve had better days and I’ve had worse days, but today was a pretty fair average. Another couple or three gallons of gas for the trip to the beach tomorrow. It works for me!
It’s off early to bed tonight so that the early start tomorrow morning won’t be so difficult. Headin’ for the surf and sand. My next post will be from the beach. YEEEEHAAAAWWWW!!!! Ok ok ok.. calm down.. it’s a long drive from home to the beach. I’ll be lucky if I have the energy to want to detect on the beach tomorrow evening. <smile> As always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
First day Vacation finds. Hello everyone, hope you are all enjoying the fine weather of late and have or will be getting out to do some detecting of your own. Today marks the first day of a long awaited vacation from work, for me anyway. My wife Val still had to attend a seminar this evening so I had to entertain myself after getting home from taking her to a doctor’s appointment in the next state earlier this morning. Of course I’m looking forward to heading off to the beach and possibly getting in some detecting in the sand later this week, but for today I settled for a more familiar haunt. My venue of choice today was a nearby park complex that is home to acres and acres of soccer fields. And hunting was good.
No matter how good or bad the hunt might be, there will always be the usual suspects found, pull tabs, can slaw and bottle caps, not to mention the other unidentifiable metal trash that gets ingested and spit out of the lawn mowers that try to keep the grass of the park tamed enough to play ball on. I didn’t even bother with pictures of that stuff today, but I probably collected and carted off (to the nearest trash barrel) about two or three pounds worth of trash. I also found some not so usual finds for this park.. toys. Toy soldiers (only one shown, and it’s PLASTIC!!! Eyeball find really), Toy cars.. tiny tiny tiny toy cars.. Micro’s even! There was a set of trucks (skateboard wheels) from a toy skate board.. duh.. I found a bunch of zipper pulls too. Odd for the grass, not so unusual at playgrounds and tot lots, but weird for the soccer fields. And there was one little tiny little button.. or snap.. looked like a four leaf clover.
I found some bling too! A couple of Pendants, one being a rhinestone guitar.
There were a couple of B’s and a tiny little enamel painted flower. There was a gumball machine ring (aluminum) and one little bracelet that turned out to be silver! Cool!
The bracelet must have lost a link from the chain connecting the heart to the rest of the chain. The bar is inserted through the heart to affix it to the wearer. Closeup photos show that it’s stamped with hallmarks and 925. Not sure what the HD/D means though. “hot diamonds” ?
I dug up this rather ratty looking remains of a medallion or pendant that deffinately has a soccer theme going on with it.
Then there was the second mouse found today. The first mouse was of course the Chuck E Cheese token shown with the “bling” earlier.. but I also found another very familiar little mouse on the face of this tiny little watch I dug up.
The watch might have been cute, but it’s definitely NOT a Timex.. it’s not still ticking.
Along with a pretty good haul of clad today I also unearthed two Wheat Pennies. One 1945 D and one 1958 D.
And of course there was the clad. I’ve had better days and I’ve had worse days, but today was a pretty fair average. Another couple or three gallons of gas for the trip to the beach tomorrow. It works for me!
It’s off early to bed tonight so that the early start tomorrow morning won’t be so difficult. Headin’ for the surf and sand. My next post will be from the beach. YEEEEHAAAAWWWW!!!! Ok ok ok.. calm down.. it’s a long drive from home to the beach. I’ll be lucky if I have the energy to want to detect on the beach tomorrow evening. <smile> As always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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