Silverbackbob
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I'm charging my camera battery as we speak so I can add a pic of an old knife I dug this weekend. Thanks to Digger, I put the 6 inch DD HF coil on my xterra 70 and hit the last house site that's on a construction site for a new CVS pharmacy. Junk city, multiple hits in every sweep...mostly iron, but lots of other types of junk as well. I only dug one good coin from here(35 Merc), several Zinc cents, and some other mixed keepers like an oil lamp wick turner(??), Hot wheels, buttons, and a nice older what looks to be a butter knife. The blade is all rusty and about 3-4 inches long. The handle is really ornate and a cool shape too. It has started to split along the sides and some rust is showing at those sites from where the blade hilt was encased in the handle. After I cleaned it off I can read the word Sterling on the handle. That means the handle is 90%+ silver, right??
It rang in at a weird mixed number. -6 up to into the 20's depending on which direction I swept the coil. I was in bare gooey muddy dirt with a tile spade...and getting desperate to find something nice, so I dug it. Ya just never know. I'll try to get a pic up ASAP. This construction site is done they are filling it back in and packing it down this week. It gave up a 1961 Franklin half, 35 merc, a bunch of wheaties and lots of whatzits. Lots of other guys hit it as well but I never saw them at it, just the dig marks. It was fun while it lasted. HH. Bob.
It rang in at a weird mixed number. -6 up to into the 20's depending on which direction I swept the coil. I was in bare gooey muddy dirt with a tile spade...and getting desperate to find something nice, so I dug it. Ya just never know. I'll try to get a pic up ASAP. This construction site is done they are filling it back in and packing it down this week. It gave up a 1961 Franklin half, 35 merc, a bunch of wheaties and lots of whatzits. Lots of other guys hit it as well but I never saw them at it, just the dig marks. It was fun while it lasted. HH. Bob.
