1st Railroad baggage tag

[litefire56]

Well after getting my work finished today, which included finally taking my Christmas lights down. (Yeah, detecting has kinda been in the way of silly things like that.) I got a call from Brett to go tecting, and we decided to go to the old farm site that gave up a Merc and war nick to me a couple days ago. No sooner do we get there and Brett digs a sweet (see his post) about 10' from where I dug the Merc. Well, as it turned out, it wasn't going to be a silver day for me but I did get a couple wheats back to 1919,,, and this cool Chicago & Western Indiana RR tag. Established in 1883. I wonder if they still want it back?

[Brett]

That tag doesn't look like it, but in real life it's nice and thick and heavy like a belt buckle. Very cool find Dad! When we were there I told you your 1919 wheatie was the oldest coin dug, but I'm going to have to retract that now since I got the 1918-s (8 over 7) SLQ

[kimsdad]

Great find, John!!

That's a better find than many silver coins are, and it will look superb in a display!!

[Aday]

That tag is pretty darn cool. Looks to be in good shape..

[Lowbatts]

The tag looks good enough to ask the question, who's pocket was in it when it rang up?

Nice digs!

[watercolor]

That is one sweet tag!

I love history like that. . . nice

watercolor