Few Cold Weather Finds While Visiting Brother

[floodplaindetector]

I went down to Iowa to visit my brother Sam and tried some detecting in some city parks for a couple days.
The ground was kind of hard but that didn't stop me as I was happy just to get out of the snow we have here up north.
The city parks I hit have been pounded hard, so I had to have some patience and really listen for the fringe and partially masked signals. Temps were about 28-35 degrees.
Everything was found with my XP Deus 2 metal detector.

The find of the trip has to be that 1885 railroad baggage tag. It is neat that it has a year on it. I believe to be Pennsylvania Railroad
The old glass brooch is another unique find. I chased a 9-10 inch deep 76 signal on the Deus 2 and it paid off.
Maybe someone has some idea of that the scene on that brooch depicts as it is hard to interpret.
It was at least 9 inches deep and was found fairly close to a 1924 wheat penny.
Thanks for looking everyone!
Dave

Coin Finds
1935,1942 mercury dimes
1890,1906,1907 Indian head pennies
1923 Sri Lanka large cent
10 wheat pennies back to 1910

Other Finds
1885 railroad baggage tag. From my research it is Pennsylvania railroad.
silver ring
monogrammed gold tie clip
gold gilded marine's button. Waterbury back mark. Maybe WWII era as it had some depth.
personalized 'Lee' pendant
skeleton key lock plate
railroad spike and large square nail spike
'Gas' key
Misc. small covers

 

[floodplaindetector]

back of glass brooch

 

[Ohio pull tabs]

You're always on it. Do you ever have a dry spell lol. Great finds

 

[Sataro]

Congrats on some great finds!

 

[fwcrawford]

That Baggage tag is really neat… especially with it having a date on it!
I like brooch too, but have no idea about the image on it..,
For a heavily pounded park, I say you had a great hunt!!!

 

[laplander]

Nice midwinter hunt Dave, happy new year!

 

[Rick(ND)]

looking good Dave, nice to get out when you can. Got some nice find there again and see you are very determine and don't give up on a signal. You wonder why others miss these, maybe they didn't have a good detector, or they had a good one, but didn't know how to use it properly , maybe too many adjustments to adjust or misadjust or ever really used it enough to understand the detector they were using. This what makes a difference is using a detectors you have as much as you do and get t know it well, sometimes it is trash and other time is a good signal that is not perfect. Mine with the Sovereign I didn't like it at first, but did use it as much as I could, then learned what the trash signal read and sounded like and learn the tones and how to make them better, but look me a while to fully understand it. One day I started really did well in some of the well worked parks by going slow and listen well.
You know your Deus 2 well and if I am able to detect anymore I would like to look into one myself and talk to you about it to learn more.

Good luck on you next outing with the Deus 2 as there is much more to find out there.


Rick

 

[Ted S]

Heckuva hunt Dave! Let me know where you hunted in Iowa so I don't go to that park! Up here in Northeast Iowa the ground has to be hard from the brass monkey warning type weather!

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds Dave I hit a beach yesterday that was loaded with coins after the storms Happy New years!
Mark