SilverSeeker247
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With this great weather today i went to a local park that i have found a 1946 Rosie and 2 Wheaties from 1958 and 1956 in the past. Most other targets have been the typical pull tabs and aluminum junk. I was only there for about 1hr today but as i was getting ready to leave. I found this in the ground it was originally bent up and since it was also getting dark i couldn't tell what it was. But when i got home i straightened it out and cleaned it up. Then i looked up on line and it appears to be from a company in Milwaukee Wisconsin that made electronic items and was famous for the old turn of the century wooden crank telephones. For just one year they made bicycles, from 1895-1896. This was also the same year that Schwinn started making bicycles. Anyway this is the front tag that was on the frame of the bicycle. The tag has Sunbeam written on the diagonal and Julius Andrae and Sons Co. across the top area. It was only about 6 inches in the dirt and sounded just like the other aluminum junk i was digging today. But I'm glad i found it, since it helps prove this park should have older coins from this same time period.
I normally use my explorer SE with the slim line coil but that is at the mine lab service center getting a check up before my warranty runs out so I was using my back up machine which is an original quarto with the older 1050 coil and the x-1 sun ray pin pointer. On a side note the sun ray probe is about 6-8 years old and i had bought it used with a bent switch, but it still works the way it should. I've heard others say the quarto is slower compared to the other explorer SE machine but this park has plenty of trash and it didn't have any problem with recovery time between targets. Since i don't use this machine that much i have to go by the sounds verses the on screen display for target ids. Is there a list of target id numbers for different coins for the quarto? A while ago i used it at a buddies house that is from the 1920s and found a V nickel that was from 1902 and that was about 6-8 in the ground and also was just in the front yard by the side walk area. So I'm wondering if anyone else has found a tag like this from a really old bicycle before?
I normally use my explorer SE with the slim line coil but that is at the mine lab service center getting a check up before my warranty runs out so I was using my back up machine which is an original quarto with the older 1050 coil and the x-1 sun ray pin pointer. On a side note the sun ray probe is about 6-8 years old and i had bought it used with a bent switch, but it still works the way it should. I've heard others say the quarto is slower compared to the other explorer SE machine but this park has plenty of trash and it didn't have any problem with recovery time between targets. Since i don't use this machine that much i have to go by the sounds verses the on screen display for target ids. Is there a list of target id numbers for different coins for the quarto? A while ago i used it at a buddies house that is from the 1920s and found a V nickel that was from 1902 and that was about 6-8 in the ground and also was just in the front yard by the side walk area. So I'm wondering if anyone else has found a tag like this from a really old bicycle before?