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    A good start for the year!

    I've had a couple of good hunts this year too! An old colonial buckle, a spur buckle, a dozen or so bullets... and cents from 1928 to 1958. I believe that's the first musketball to come off the old farm we been hunting for a couple of years now. I'ts always a surprise to dig great seal buttons...
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    'Twas a good year part 2

    From a three hook yankee beltplate [ rough, but it's the real thing] , Colonial and CW era Rosettes, buckles and other brass, a colonial seal, some interesting bolo ties, a hundred or so buttons, a mess of bullets and p caps found in the same hole....apparently the contents of a bullet pouch...
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    'Twas a good year

    Yes, it 'twas a good year for me. Two confederate spurs, lots of old coppers, a nice clip corner militia shoulder plate, cut spanish silver.... it goes on and on. Thanks for looking, and good luck.
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    Relics & Silver

    Cool Relics and Sweet Silver... a great combo. The first pic is of the New York button in a previous post and the relics found around it. The 2nd pic is of an 1829 - 1837 half dime - do you see the outline of the eagle? A mercury dime follows, then some SWEEEET Spanish cut silver, then a worn...
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    Ever seen a New York button like this?

    Hey everybody. I dug this button about three weeks ago in a known cw area, and surrounded by various cw relics. It's a big overcoat sized button - 28mm, and has no backmark. Tice's book has some similar pieces on pg. 381, but none match. Could it be a postwar piece? Any help is appreciated.
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    onto the colonial stuff

    Dug a nice cast pewter wax seal, a bit of spanish silver, a real crude one piece cast button, half an old shoe buckle, a bullet, and a victorian era broach. I just might be onto the oldest part of the farm after all! Thanks fer looking, and good luck.
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    interesting homestead steel works piece

    hello all. i recovered this interesting worker's check from a field in dinwiddie co. va. [what the heck was it doing there?!!] last year. i'd completely forgotten about it until today, going through some older finds. it's about the size of a silver dollar. any ideas on the time frame? the...
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    any ideas about this watch fob?

    hello. i'd like to know WHAT [!!!] this watch fob commemorates.... the back is plain, no maker's marks. any help would be appreciated. thanks, and good luck!
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    is it confederate?

    hello all. frank and i hit the woods once again yesterday. i dug this nice but unmarked spur. it's the horizontal, raking type. it's pretty heavy and solid. a bent over poker chip, an interesting dupont disc, and a few other goodies came out the ground too. i'm glad it's starting to cool down...
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    is it confederate?

    hello all. frank and i hit the woods once again yesterday. i dug this nice but unmarked spur. it's the horizontal, raking type. it's pretty heavy and solid. a bent over poker chip, an interesting dupont disc, and a few other goodies came out the ground too. i'm glad it's starting to cool down...
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    two decent hunts near petersburg

    hello all. frank and i have hit a new spot south of petersburg twice now. been right warm, but we're still gettin' it! it got to a cool 92 degrees, so we took advantage of it last weekend and today. i dug a messed up yankee button today, as well as some other nice floral, ball, and flat buttons...
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    another decent hour in the woods!

    hello all. it's been blistering HOT here, but once in a while manage to get out. the eley bros. piece was given to me by a good friend. my shovel slipped off a huge root and barely dented the co. b letter. oh well, i can't win them all. good luck!
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    a hot hour in the woods pays off!

    yeah, it was hot... but worth it. visiting near the battle lines of the haw's shop/ enon church battlefield, i dug a nice silverplated [at one time] spur that took a horizontal rowel, instead of the usual vertical rowel. it's unmarked, small, and might be civilian. a nice crude three ringer...
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    dug a nice clip corner this morning!

    frank and i headed out near the confederate lines at the haw's shop battlefield this morning. i said, "today's the day, frank. i can feel it in my bones." the sweat started pouring, and the finds were scarce, digging only a couple of bullets here and there. shotgun shells galore. walking out the...
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    a decent hunt near the beefsteak raid site

    hey everybody. olddigger and i hit a spot south of petersburg, va. near where the beefsteak raid occurred in 1864. we managed to dig a few relics - an inside out shot williams cleaner bullet, a lead ring, an iron buckle, a pair of chewed bullets, lead melt, a brass parasol piece, an iron...
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    a couple of hunts with the olddigger!

    hey everybody. i've been mia for awhile, returning from the road working. olddigger and i squeezed in a couple of hunts together. i came up with some shot lead yesterday in a short line about 30 yards long, after fruitlessly searching two fiteen acre fields. it used to be a swampy area, so all...
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    finds from wednesday's hunt with the oldddigger

    hello all. it was a 65 degree day, so olddigger and i headed out to the beanfields of dinwiddie co. once again. i dug up some rivets, 3 flatbuttons, several sharps, a crushed thimble, my third henry from the site with the "b" marked base recovered 6 ft. away. the nice enfield was a surprise; i...
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    back out to sharps field with the worm!

    hello all. pete the worm and myself headed back out to the field yesterday - it was 60 degrees - where we've all been digging sharps by the pouchfuls. i think we're up to nearly 200 between the three of us, so it's been good for us. i dug 12, got a solid brass musket band, 2 wheat cents, a '44...
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    confederate gold

    hey everybody. shown is my small confederate button collection i've acquired over the years. most are bought, some were found by myself. all are real, and all have shanks. let's see your collections, fellas! thanks for looking.
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    as bad as the day started, it's a wonder....

    hey everybody. i went out for a short time yesterday alone to the old beanfields of dinwiddie co. frank, pete and myself had found two small yankee camps and a couple of nice confederate pieces in pockets. naturally, i headed to a supposed old bridge connecting the two camps - after searching...
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