Wheatie Tree yields a V for two, wheaties and a silver
Lowbatts and me went to the tree.
In search of the elusive wheatie we be...
I popped out a couple then Lowbatts did too
OK forget the rhymes - too much work for this feeble brain.
Anyways we went to the spot we've been about 3 or 4 times to see if we could squeeze out a few more goodies.
Sure enough we each got some wheaties. I got excited (briefly) when I saw the 1909 but unfortunately it had no S VDB. I also got a very large smashed bullet, and a really old cufflink that at first I thought was a button. In the same hole I found a little gold plated something or other. When I got the finds home and cleaned them up, it turned out the gold plated thing is the back to the cufflink. There's a little tab on the cufflink that fits into a slot on the back piece. I love getting old stuff like this way more than a pocket spill with 20 coins from the 70's through the 90's.
Tim found a nice nickel on the outskirts of the wheatie zone. Not to be outdone by him, about a half hour later I managed to pop one out too although his is older than mine! A little after that I was saying something about we hadn't pulled any silver out of there yet... and then chaching! I got the '47D Rosey.
After a brief repast at Che Wendy, we hit another section and found some brass objects like door latch parts, Tim got some other cool stuff related to Elgin's history, and I'm not sure if he was using his detector for this but he found an intact working bicycle in a wooded area, which I also walked up to just moments before the owner of it came by and said "Did you find my bicycle?" I said something like, yeah it was kind of hard to miss. I think he said he left it there last night. Maybe he didn't want a B U I - I don't know. Something wasn't right with the picture.
In another spot someone must have tossed a handful of pennies into the woods because I was finding mem cents on the surface under the leaves. After about 7 of them I had enough and left the area.
It was another great day to be digging!
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Re: Wheatie Tree yields a V for two, wheaties and a silver
Nice take there! By the way I am a misplaced Elginite myself. I am now in WI outside Madison. Have you guys detected Central Park on State street in Elgin, I used to sled there as a kid and there was always lots of kids there. Might be alot of loot there from back then. I'm talking early to mid 60's when I used to play there. Just a thought. HH!
Re: Wheatie Tree yields a V for two, wheaties and a silver
Originally Posted by Nickles
Nice take there! By the way I am a misplaced Elginite myself. I am now in WI outside Madison. Have you guys detected Central Park on State street in Elgin, I used to sled there as a kid and there was always lots of kids there. Might be alot of loot there from back then. I'm talking early to mid 60's when I used to play there. Just a thought. HH!
Hey Nickles, Central Park:
I've gotten two IH caches there near the old gazebo foundation at the bottom of the hill. Multiple barber and mercs at the bottom "point" where the hill heads into the tracks, but overall the park is either very sparsely populated with coins or they're way under the deep at the bottom. Pulled some bling there also. When you get back to Elgin lemme know, we'll tear it up some more.
Now to Wheatie Tree
Underneath the wheatie tree,
It's Mayo and me,
Digging ooh la la la.
No wait, that's mango tree and Mayo is no Honey Rider. But yep, he scored that rosie as we were pulling up stakes, cutting the hunt shorter than desired becasue a nearby domestic disturbance altered our intended hunt site.
Not sure about the escutcheon, maybe it was from the doorknob? The small bell-shaped thing with the crosshatch pattern- dustpan of the liliputiians? The copper disk (backplane from a watch perhaps?) really gave the LC charge until I saw the tapped holes. The large watchface awaits finishing, the bullets may have been from the Battle of Lagoon Heights. Yep, that washer is just a washer, not a vens coupon sans core. The V is a 1883 and the wheatie is a 1944.
Re: Wheatie Tree yields a V for two, wheaties and a silver
Great stuff, boys!!!
Old nickels, silver, jewelry - very nice! You think that dustpan is a CJ toy?
Can you imaginge being a young boy way back then, saving your money for a box of CJ, then finding out your prize is a little dustpan? Hopefully your sister would have something good to trade for it!
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Originally Posted by Nickles
