Buttons from a famous CW General..and other items...

[soupie]

Hiya Folks...

Scrounger D (Mark) stopped by to hunt Fri and Sat afternoons...he was passing through on his way back from wintering in Florida...Thurday he hit a park a few hours south of me and found a nice bowling medallion...pics below

Friday we hit a small park and did not find much.....Mark scored some clad as did I,one 60's memorial was 8" or better and the site was filled completely with pulltabs..
We also ventured to a nearby field and hunted a former homesite...I dug the sides to an old baitcaster reel,they were about 5' apart and also several shotgun shell ends..UMC's and found one giant piece of lead....
Mark recovered half of a nice copper butterfly,which was about 4-5" tall...I did not get a pic of this but it was a nice find...

Saturday we went to a farmfield not far from my home,luckily the dirt road back to the site was dry enough to drive down,the house was smack dab in the middle of 640 acres of field...and would have made for a nice long walk....

Anyhow..we spent about 4 hours there and made a few finds...Mark scored 4 buttons...2 were marine uniform buttons with a Hortsmann Philadelphia backmark and date from 1893-1935,the other 2 he cleaned when he arrived back at his hotel...
I found a Chauffeurs license dated 1929 and that was about it...lots of copper and lead for the recycle bin but nothing of any note...
Mark called latter that night with the backmark to his marine buttons so I could post them in the Whatzit section for him,this is when he told me the other 2 buttons were CW...I sazzz no kidding,he says yeah...they have a famous generals name on them....I sazzzz yeah right...he says no really...The famous General "LEE".....That Mark is a funny Guy....

Thanks for hunting with me Mark,was fun as always...

Sunday I hunted for a few hours and the pics are below...

Have fun out there Folks...

Soup

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

WTG guys, get out when you can, you just never know when that
great find will pop up.

[Lowbatts]

Don't ya know it?
I've dug so many of them 12th Georgia buttons around here I thought I was in Atlanta for a couple years. Them and the 16th Georgia, and some from the 20th too!

[Gimmie The Loot]

cool stuff. You get all the cool stuff.

[kimsdad]

Interesting finds, Soupie!!!

That chauffer's license is very cool!!

[etrac007]

i do like license tag , wtg!

[MR Senior L4S]

Not bad ! buttons looks good too

[scrounger d detector collector]

when the weather turns milder the wimps return.

and sooo... i finally decided to come back from florida.

now that them winter wallops are outta here.

i had kept in contact w soup during my trip.

and he kindly invited me back for more mud play.

nuthin i like better than any kinda treasure hunt

so a course i accepted.

but the next day was going to be cold and blustery

so i decided to stay where i was and do just a short hunt.

vs these longer field hunts.

being sore from 3 days of mining at the ALABAMA

GOLD CAMP. i chose the tesoro silver umax for its light

weight w the 10x12 coil it gets em.

late in the hunt got a real banger signal.

which turned out to be the AMERICAN BOWLING CONGRESS

medal . i always felt this park still held an old goodie or two.

although soup took a great picture of it, u cannot read what it sez

.12th annual international tournament american bowling

congress mar 2-23 1912. so iz 99 yrs old.

i was very excited to find.

made by whitehead and hoag newark nj. which is a famous

company in american advertising novelties.

sice there is nothing in the pic for sizing u cannot tell.

but this item is very large silver dollar size.

looking from the back u can see the medal

is uniform in size and shape undamaged.

unforunately it is struck somewhat off center which makes

it appear that part of the wreath is missing.

oh well crude manf on an early piece.

wife calling for a honeydo.gotta go for now.ill

be back to comment on the field hunting asap.

[soupie]

Scrounger,are you coming back to finish up bud? or has the wife laid down the law after 2 months of beach hunting

[d-dub]

Those are some great relics, Soupie. Looking forward to the group hunt. Can't wait!

[scrounger d detector collector]

Scrounger,are you coming back to finish up bud? or has the wife laid down the law after 2 months of beach hunting

no. sorry. it was some gremlins in my electric

system and various other things that stack up while gone.

anyway heres my version of the 2 day hunts.

after finding the bowling medal i was all set to really

hit it on the field hunting. soup had mentioned

a park he thought might hold some silver.

this turned out poor due to my not having

the right detector with. imho one should not try for

deepies without an etrac . i was using my excal 2

in the park, but w/o my readout i was helpless.

we both found the place loaded w trash anyway.

it was quickly decided to switch to another site

and boy it was closeby.

soup has done such great research around his area.

that we scarcely missed a a few minutes and were

on site quickly. wow.

this old homesite had a lot more targets than previous

sires we were on but most scrap.

the copper butterfly wing got my attention and i

was concentrating hoping to find the other half.

no dice. but a happy day trying to find stuff is great

by me.we agreed to find it tomorrow.

next day i shook my habitual tardiness and actually arrived

a little early. i was wondering where the pickup was.

but as usual soup were spying on me and knew where

i was. so ifind out were going in his brand new

mitsubishi wonder truck. i was very hesitant to put my

muddy machines and gear in it. he oked things n were off.

were discussing the features of this top of the line truck

which has many bells n whistles . i wondered if we were gonna

go 4 wheelin to some back road site.

soon we pulled down a long lane. checking to see

on mud conditions. pretty wet.

well were here so lets get it. plunging into the mud.

soup was edge detecting mostly where it was somewhat

drier. i had the mistaken idea that the good stuff

was out there further . well. u laugh if u see me.

waddling thru the corn stubble trying not to sink in.

like a fat mans hop scotch game.

neither of us finding much. soup lookin a bit muddy too.

after awhile soup scores the chaffeur badge. wow.

cool. now i gotta try n find somethn.

i switched more to the field edge where it was drier

because i had no energy left to hopscotch.

we had only 20 min left. found where general lee

surrendurred his suspenders.

got lucky at the very end and found a military button.

then a big signal which was plumbing and eyeballed

an identical button on top.

just as were leaving i find a 50 cent pc. oyyyyy play money

just my luck .oh well.

it was time to go. this wonder truck has a rear cam

on it so u can see behind u. we backed out so fast it nearly scared me.

soup gotsa good camera and took pics for me.

thank u scott for fun hunting again.

hes telling me that the house site belonged to the man

who sold him a previous car.

im curious as to what the man who sold him his new truck

might have had to promise to.

[watercolor]

Nice stuff Scott!

That chauffeur's license & bowling medallion are GREAT