A day in the ice, mud and rain.

[John 'n' W.Va]

I went out MD'ing this vacant house in between the rain. About one quarter of the ground was frozen.

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I leave most of my trash there and bring home the stuff I want to investigate farther. They are going to demo the house and build a hi-way through it.

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The black thing on the bottom I thought was a cutting blade and found out it was a brooch. It had a rhinestone in it but fell out somewhere. I hope it was a Rhinestone. I found a door bell, a door bell button, live shot gun shell, parts to a pocket watch and a few things I have no idea what they are.

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I found five wheat's.

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I also found this token. It says, "Ginger"on one side and "good for one pack of cigarettes" on the other side. I Googled it and they started making them in 1937. I didn't understand it all. They said the vending machines were a disguise for slot machines. This is a slot machine token.

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[Rosco Bookbinder]

Once again some great finds and pictues John. Even in the frozen ground you found some neat stuff. Dig through about 14 inches of snow and I could dig that frozen tundra...........

 

[awhitster]

I think we need to re-name you Junkman'n' W.Va. Cool finds. I like finding stuff that I have to try and figure out what it is. There is a What Is It board on another forum. Those guys over there can figure out just about what anything is.

 

[Graw]

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[Paul(NWO)]

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[John 'n' W.Va]

Thanks for the come back. I was thinking that was a sewing machine spool. My wife agrees with you.

The house was on one lot and it had two vacant lots on each side of it. They also rented out a garage apartment. Maybe that is why I got so many coins. I didn't think that was a lot of coins. The front yard gave up the most coins. I was hoping for some older coins or silver. I grid the yard carefully. It seems like the wheat's are 6"+ deep. The weak jumpy iron signals that go from iron to silver turns out to be wheat if it is over 6". If it is 4" or less it is usually a roofing nail. If there isn't much trash that system works well. The mineralized soil makes the ID go crazy here.

I have 5 gal. buckets that I put my metal trash in. I live in an apartment now, but my buckets are at my parents' house. I need to take time and clean out the trunk of my car. It's getting a little messy with the metal I have collected. Two years ago I sold over $700 worth of metal. I have a lot of things I don't know what to do with. Old metal that is like the spool and bells that aren't worth much, but I don't want to scrap it. I also have a thing that looks like a coat hanger with a loop on top and pins sticking out for bells to hang on. It is a type of slay bells for a horse made in the 1800's. It is rusty and ugly. A good subject line for a post. What do you do with old junk?

 

[Uncle Willy]

Nice collection of goodies bud, especially the slot token.

Bill