Here are some of my June highlights:
First group was from last years honey hole, I've visited it 20 or so times and I pull at least 1 silver 75% of the time.
The second group was from an old park. A friend and I detected some wooded hills that are off the main part of the park. As it turns out, 100 years of park life, this area was played on.
I love the steamfitters medal. The company that made it closed in 1955, but dates back to the mid 1800's, so it's at least 1955 in age. I'm assuming the 20th annual convention was from a local union for Connecticut, maybe Mass. I couldn't google anything about a steamfitters convention other than the 75th convention out of Georgia, but I doubt that this is it. Anyone have any ideas or luck finding something that matches up from the east coast?
The other cool thing I found was the silver cigarette case, just would barely fil non-filtered cigarettes, so it's fairly old. The company from the hallmark started in 1920 and still exists today. I wasn't able to find out the exact date, no catalogs exist that I could find, I even called the place. It's marked Sterling, but I think the only parts that are silver are the edges/seams attached to the "clam shells", the hinge, and of course the cigarette holder downers. The clam shell has a bit of a goldish tinge to it, and those circular swirly patterns aren't anything I've seen done to silver. Each clam shell is marked 22 L, but I have had no sucess in determining what, if anything, they mean. What does everyone else thing, is it solid silver, but with the black enamal on top of the silver. It doesn't seem to me they would cover the silver. Let me know if you find anything out.
The third group is from my first 3 hours at a new 1850's house I got permission to detect at. It has a huge front yard that goes down hill towards main street of the town. I can imagine all the parades and fun activities that were done there. Unfortunately, the big fat 3' diameter tree that I want to detect around has a 20'X20' patch of poison ivy growing on one side, the side closest to the house. So I will probably be passing on some stuff. In the 3 hours with my 12X15 SEF I almost completed one gridded pass horizontally of the front yard. I have about 20' more to go to main street. The detecting was rough, even with a pretty high manual sensitivity, the signals were pretty crappy on stuff below 5-6". The silver pin was so scratchy I almost didn't dig it. The other deepy was the trolley token. It was the last item recovered from an 8-9 plug that included 2 wheaties. It read 11Fer 1Con, and it is not a signal I normally dig had I not already cut a plug and found stuff in the hole. All in all, not a lot of old stuff, though my first pass I usually cherry pick a little bit and try to get a feel for where people used the yard the most. I'm off until next Tuesday and I plan on hitting the place hard.
Well, enjoy the pics. It's going to take 2 posts for them.
Jai
First group was from last years honey hole, I've visited it 20 or so times and I pull at least 1 silver 75% of the time.
The second group was from an old park. A friend and I detected some wooded hills that are off the main part of the park. As it turns out, 100 years of park life, this area was played on.
I love the steamfitters medal. The company that made it closed in 1955, but dates back to the mid 1800's, so it's at least 1955 in age. I'm assuming the 20th annual convention was from a local union for Connecticut, maybe Mass. I couldn't google anything about a steamfitters convention other than the 75th convention out of Georgia, but I doubt that this is it. Anyone have any ideas or luck finding something that matches up from the east coast?
The other cool thing I found was the silver cigarette case, just would barely fil non-filtered cigarettes, so it's fairly old. The company from the hallmark started in 1920 and still exists today. I wasn't able to find out the exact date, no catalogs exist that I could find, I even called the place. It's marked Sterling, but I think the only parts that are silver are the edges/seams attached to the "clam shells", the hinge, and of course the cigarette holder downers. The clam shell has a bit of a goldish tinge to it, and those circular swirly patterns aren't anything I've seen done to silver. Each clam shell is marked 22 L, but I have had no sucess in determining what, if anything, they mean. What does everyone else thing, is it solid silver, but with the black enamal on top of the silver. It doesn't seem to me they would cover the silver. Let me know if you find anything out.
The third group is from my first 3 hours at a new 1850's house I got permission to detect at. It has a huge front yard that goes down hill towards main street of the town. I can imagine all the parades and fun activities that were done there. Unfortunately, the big fat 3' diameter tree that I want to detect around has a 20'X20' patch of poison ivy growing on one side, the side closest to the house. So I will probably be passing on some stuff. In the 3 hours with my 12X15 SEF I almost completed one gridded pass horizontally of the front yard. I have about 20' more to go to main street. The detecting was rough, even with a pretty high manual sensitivity, the signals were pretty crappy on stuff below 5-6". The silver pin was so scratchy I almost didn't dig it. The other deepy was the trolley token. It was the last item recovered from an 8-9 plug that included 2 wheaties. It read 11Fer 1Con, and it is not a signal I normally dig had I not already cut a plug and found stuff in the hole. All in all, not a lot of old stuff, though my first pass I usually cherry pick a little bit and try to get a feel for where people used the yard the most. I'm off until next Tuesday and I plan on hitting the place hard.
Well, enjoy the pics. It's going to take 2 posts for them.
Jai
