The relics of a drunken gold-miner 1864

[tinpan]

Hi all went camping this week-end and 2 spent todays over at the historic goldrush town of Castlemaine.Heres a link to give a bit of history of the town of castlemaine.

http://www.castlemaine.org/

Well i spent may hours hunting but managed a couple of keepers. Dutch gin bottle [1860] and a wine token 1864 Butterworth of castlemaine .Small town tokens are hard to come by i,m so real happy

Oher finds include a once silverplated fob chain and a copper[pressed] lion head with a ring threw its nose.The relic is only about 2 inches long and far to small to be a door knocker. Any ideas would be help.

Starting to warm up and i feel the heat will not be far away.Heres a couple pics

tinpan

 

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[Old River]

Really nice bottle. Congrats.....

 

[Newt]

Looks like an old Gin bottle. Nice finds.
newt

 

[tinpan]

thanks for the replies heres a couple of pics of bottom and top of the gin bottle

 

[mikewaz]

Nice finds, and what a cool bottle!
Maybe the lions head is a drawer pull off of a dresser?
Mike

 

[trikikiwi]

Very cool finds tinpan
I bet you are stoked over the token

and yep, the lion's head appears to be a drawer pull


Cheers, Mike

 

[tinpan]

thanks for the id trikiwi, Only ever found 2 local gold town tokens in the last 4 years.Still looking for the Sandhurst token. the hardest of all to find.

tinpan

 

[slotman]

Thats my kind of a hunt! way to go!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice finds TP, I really like that bottle and token! Good luck on the gold and HH, Mike

 

[tinpan]

Nice finds TP, I really like that bottle and token! Good luck on the gold and HH, Mike

Need more than luck, few local mders are getting some nice gold lately.Their using gpx 450 minelabs.$6000 dollars plus they more time than me.I,m just a week-ender.Sorry i cannot compete against than sort depth.gpx can pick up a 3 gram piece at more than 2 feet. Gee i wish santa was real because thats the only way i will ever get a gpx lol


t.p

 

[Kiros32]

Love that bottle, nice job!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I know what you mean, we are the working class hobbyists, LOL! I have also drooled over that Minelab GPX4500, awesome machine. A friend I have detected with traded in his GPX3000 for a 4500, he has done well with it as he has always done well in Alaska. I will admit to you, I have not found any Nazi silver coinage, close but no swastika. I did find a nice Nazi swastika pin yesterday and a late 1800s seal matrix. I do hope you will invite me down under for a hunt when we retire from the working class in about 20 years and I will invite you here to the land of the beer, LOL. HH, Mike

 

[time4me]

That token is awesome - nice work!!!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Tin,

neat hunt.


have a good un.......
SHERMANVILLE

 

[River Rat]

Love that token. Now that's the kind of bottle Gypsy and I were looking for in the creek bed at the CTH2.

RR

 

[Cynangyl]

gracious...hard to decide what I like best...token....bottle...drawer pull....oh forget it...love them all! lol congrats!

 

[mobrigade]

Sweeet!!!

 

[tinpan]

I know what you mean, we are the working class hobbyists, LOL! I have also drooled over that Minelab GPX4500, awesome machine. A friend I have detected with traded in his GPX3000 for a 4500, he has done well with it as he has always done well in Alaska. I will admit to you, I have not found any Nazi silver coinage, close but no swastika. I did find a nice Nazi swastika pin yesterday and a late 1800s seal matrix. I do hope you will invite me down under for a hunt when we retire from the working class in about 20 years and I will invite you here to the land of the beer, LOL. HH, Mike

sounds like a good idea because i think in 20 years treasure hunting down under will be a thing of the past.Theres just to many laws and the areas to hunt are shrinking.


tinpan

 

[sfinder]

Nice finds, thanks for posting.

 

[olepossum]

i used to have a foot locker from late 1800s early2900s it had the same lion head w ring in nose as a decorative lid peice