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    Thruppence, Trinkets and Thunderbirds...

    Darn, it - it sure is hard to keep up with documenting all this jun-- er, uh, treasure! I had a bit of a surprise - my Jackalope, whom I had been calling Jack, turned out to be a Jackie. She delivered a litter of six little 'lopes! They're pretty cute when they're little, but breaking them in...
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    Getting Out of the Dog House....

    ... I finally took a few pics of some recent finds, but first, a quick update on some Civil War finds from my last posts. It pays to read the Garrett newsletters! On page 22 or 23 of the last issue (not the one that just came out), someone had found an item that I hadn't yet been able to ID. It...
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    CA Couple Finds 10 Million in Gold Coins

    Man, how would you like to find a little cache like this? :drool: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/calif-couple-strike-10-million-gold-coin-bonanza-22667087
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    Last 3 Hunts, Got A Little Of Everything...

    ... got my 'fix' and found a few goodies in most of my favorite categories. These were with my AT Gold & 5x8 coil. I did some more sniffing around the area where I found the Civil War medal and found a couple more military items including an infantry collar pin and an embossed brass eagle...
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    Found a Civil War Medal :jump:

    I was working along the creek the other day and dug this little medal. I thought it looked older than WWII - maybe Indian Wars. When I got around to researching it, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it is a Civil War Union Officer's medal awarded in 1865. That's 5 years before the...
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    The Fish Are Jumpin'... (beverage required!)

    dirt fish, that is... Well, despite the inclement weather (sunny, 50s), our intrepid adventurer has gotten a few hunts in. I don't know what Tigger's major malfunction is - I've asked him to post photos a number of times, but he just gives me a lazy smile and mumbles "Ma
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    Trinkets, Trash & a Few Treasures (Mega Pic Heavy)

    Y'all have likely been thinking "Man, that William-NM is one lazy old son of a gun". That's only mostly true; I did have a nice break (the only way I could get myself to knock out the web design project for the client (a lawyer) was to lock myself in the hut until it was completed). Done, client...
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    Saddle Up Yer Hosses & Git Ready to Ride, Boys! (Grab a Beverage)

    Wal, thar I was, doing a little recon around the stone ruins the other day, when I got a big iron signal that just said 'dig me'. Now, there are thousands of chunks of big iron down there- everything from appliances to cars to building supports, mostly from the floods that distributed what used...
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    Sum-mer Time, & the Dig-ging is Easy...

    Found a few interesting keepers this week. The monsoons arrived promptly on July 1 and after a few days of light afternoon showers, since July 4th, it's been a sunny morning, clouding up around 1:30 p.m., followed by an hour of thunder-cracking monsoon rains before clearing up. I got a couple of...
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    Here's Some Stuff to Look At

    I found the sterling WWII era 'efficiency' pin up in Fierro (ghost town). The ring came from near Silver City. It's not much to look at, and I thought it was a crummy, plated junk ring until I scraped the crust off of it. A nice surprise. It tests at 10K and weighs in at 5 grams. It was worth...
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    Found My Dream Car!

    (note: I am trying ImageShack because I don't like the changes at PhotoBucket, but it seems pretty slow tonight) Well, I finally got the convertible of my dreams! It's just a 2 seater, but lots of room under the hood for plenty of horsepower! I was working around a ghost town school site (pure...
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    The Rest of the Story...

    Here are the remaining treasures... I found a third "Hector" pin - they're brass - I found the other two about a month apart some time ago. Odd. Also pictured is the rather sweet child's bracelet, brass, I guess. and some future spoon rings ( or re-plating candidates)...the top fork is...
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    I Wanted To Find Some More GOLD, but...

    ... got more than I bargained for! As Tom Petty said it so well; "Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes", heh. Then, Tigger was complaining that he hasn't had an adventure lately, so I tossed him in the car and we headed up to an old mining site that I wanted to check. The hike in was...
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    Miner's Camp and Adobe Ruins Hunts, Gold Keeps Flowing!:detecting:

    I did some hunting around a steep slope with some old adobe & timber cabin ruins just below town. This hill is above where the old train station stood. Here's the view from one of them, and my daily axe head, found under the walking path. In addition to some copper and brass recyling, it...
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    Some New Favorite Finds - Token, Fob, Gold Pin...

    I had some luck this week despite some wild March weather - my ghost town hunt started with mist & fog, followed by a drizzle, then it cleared up, then it hailed like mad, cleared up again and then rained on and off for the rest of the day. Good thing little blackie is water tight - more than I...
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    Ghost Town Gives Up the Gold

    I've fallen behind in posting my treasures once again, so will post my recent ghost town finds and some highlights of my other recent finds. The weather has been wildly variable from shirt sleeves and shorts to howling blizzards and hail, but mostly nice 50s & 60s. Here's a shot of the ghost...
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    Thar's GOLD in them thar hills!

    Well, I was having kind of a so-so week, but last night as I was cleaning up some finds, I happily discovered that one of my mystery-melts was of the shiny golden variety! It tests at 10K and .74 oz. I'll also post the chunk that I found a while back. This weeks nugget was found with the AT Pro...
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    Some Recent Finds - A Little SIlver, Lots of Relics

    I managed a few keepers in between the sub-freezing days (and it's back up into the 40's - 50's now, my favorite digging temp!) I dug the silver Art Deco ring in an old rail yard. It's stamped "OB Sterling", for Ostby Barton. Sadly, Barton went down with the Titanic in 1912, though his daughter...
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    Some Recent Finds - A Little SIlver, Lots of Relics

    I managed a few keepers in between the sub-freezing days (and it's back up into the 40's - 50's now, my favorite digging temp!) I dug the silver Art Deco ring in an old rail yard. It's stamped "OB Sterling", for Ostby Barton. Sadly, Barton went down with the Titanic in 1912, though his daughter...
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    Badges, Pins, Marbles, Relics - Recent Finds - Pic Heavy

    Well, it's been such a challenge to keep up with cleaning and posting my finds that I have decided to outsource that part of the operation: It was back to the creek for some more relic goodness ( Here are the results of mixing road rage, holiday stress, and alcohol (or worse): Here's a...
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