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[Iron Patch]

So post your neat/cool or freakin awesome find here!

 

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[tuatara]

Small silver locket with a lock of hair in it. One side says Mary and the other side has a sheep with a cross in the background. No idea how old it is but the field that I found it in gave up several coins from the 1700s. It's just a little bit larger then a nickle.I would love to know the story behind it.

Hi,

Your locket is probably an example of so called mourning jewellery.

'Mourning jewelry with hair enjoyed enormous popularity in eighteenth-century Europe. The special qualities of hair as a medium for remembrance lies in its metonymic condition and its narrative implications: its cut ends refer to the absent body. The forming and framing of hair in mourning jewels both reflects and produces tensions between presence and absence, and between showing and hiding.'

It's a quote from a book of C.Holm. Your 18th century coins indicate that timeframe is correct.

 

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[birdman]

Hi,

(Your locket is probably an example of so called mourning jewellery.

'Mourning jewelry with hair enjoyed enormous popularity in eighteenth-century Europe. The special qualities of hair as a medium for remembrance lies in its metonymic condition and its narrative implications: its cut ends refer to the absent body. The forming and framing of hair in mourning jewels both reflects and produces tensions between presence and absence, and between showing and hiding.'

It's a quote from a book of C.Holm. Your 18th century coins indicate that timeframe is correct.)


tuatara,extreamly cool explanation. That answers a lot of questions!

 

[Brian W]

Found this love token made from a 1854 seated quarter...Thought it was very cool....Love the detail on it....Im sure it was very special to someone at onetime.

 

[ModernMiner]

I think one of my coolest finds was this Scarificator blood letting tool used in the old days as a way to rid a person of disease.
This medical practice is what some believe killed George Washington, due to too much blood being taken in such a shot time.
I made a display & donated it to our local mueum.
-MM-

 

[steelheadwill]

Cool finds All!
here's mine, a 3-1/2 inch cast and wrought anchor.
Heavy, but harder than lead,
found at site where 3 counterfeit coins that appear to be of the same alloy were dug.

 

[KEVTEC]

I would have to say the coolest find I made was last year in Mexico. Necklace weighed in at 133.1 grams 14kt. diamond cut rope, and the roach clip weighed in at 14.1 grams 14kt with 9 diamonds in the back of the hand. Also the thumb opens and closes with a spring.

 

[colorado14ers]

I would have to say the coolest find I made was last year in Mexico. Necklace weighed in at 133.1 grams 14kt. diamond cut rope, and the roach clip weighed in at 14.1 grams 14kt with 9 diamonds in the back of the hand. Also the thumb opens and closes with a spring.

was this in Weastern and Eastern Treasures mag?? its like ive see that hand before . very cool though!!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

This isnt my best coolest find but its one of my strangest. In a way its kinda cool. I found this heavy cast aluminum ashtray in a dump. Its a miniature replica of Hitlers fireplace high above Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. The marble inset piece is an authentic marble chip taken from the fireplace hearth in his Obersalzberg home during the occupation in 1945. I am not a collector of Hitler memorabilia and I flick my ashes in this cool trophy of victory over tyranny in WWII.

http://www.usmbooks.com/berghof_fireplace.html

 

[steelheadwill]

This isnt my best coolest find but its one of my strangest. In a way its kinda cool. I found this heavy cast aluminum ashtray in a dump. Its a miniature replica of Hitlers fireplace high above Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. The marble inset piece is an authentic marble chip taken from the fireplace hearth in his Obersalzberg home during the occupation in 1945. I am not a collector of Hitler memorabilia and I flick my ashes in this cool trophy of victory over tyranny in WWII.

http://www.usmbooks.com/berghof_fireplace.html

That's a Way Cool Relic and piece of History!

 

[Brian C.]

Here are a couple interesting finds. The old lock peace came out of the the 1830s ghost town site.
Brian C.

 

[Gridwalker306]

I thought this 1940's printing plate (newspaper?) was cool to find. I need to ink it up and print a copy and see how hot she is!

 

[KEVTEC]

I would have to say the coolest find I made was last year in Mexico. Necklace weighed in at 133.1 grams 14kt. diamond cut rope, and the roach clip weighed in at 14.1 grams 14kt with 9 diamonds in the back of the hand. Also the thumb opens and closes with a spring.

was this in Weastern and Eastern Treasures mag?? its like ive see that hand before . very cool though!!

Yes it was It was in the 2010 annual finds of W&E Magazine

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Found the Lone Ranger badge in the back yard of an old house. What's neat is the secret compartment on the back of the badge!

The gold nugget came out of a city park in S.F.! I wonder if it was lost by a 49er back in the 1850's?!

 

[RelicHunter97]

Here are a couple interesting finds. The old lock peace came out of the the 1830s ghost town site.
Brian C.

I dug the exact same key-hole out of the yard of my 1900 house-my mom says it came off a piece of eastlake furniture

 

[Gonehunting]

Woodman of the World lapel pin/tie tac. Not near as cool as the others, but havent seen one of the recovered yet. I found this metal detecting near an old shack near Ardmore Oklahoma.

 

[Marc(NB)]

Hard to choose just 1 kewl find but Ive chosen the most valuable money wise to me.Mid 30's ,doubled sided porcelain flanged sign.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Hard to choose just 1 kewl find but Ive chosen the most valuable money wise to me.Mid 30's ,doubled sided porcelain flanged sign.

looks like someone used it for target practice. That must have killed the value monetarily? http://www.icollector.com/Coca-Cola...e-VG-cond-both-sides-w-edge-losses-2_i9372421

 

[Marc(NB)]

yep shotgun blast did it I turned down an offer for it
now it hangs in my garage

 

[jcooking]

Not the most valuable or rare, but one of my coolest finds! Civil war era US Cavalry bit boss.

 

[julesjunk]

Here is two of my favorites (sorry for the longwinded post. Froze in, and bored).
The love token comes with a weird story, and the button was fun to "hatch"......

1) Myself and a friend, both MDers, had to drive a box truck to Maine (I'm envious of you east coasters). Home is Kansas City, so a loong drive. During the trip, we passed the time by coming up with different ways to gamble on what we'd dig while there. One of the bets was how close to the date of the oldest coin we'd each dig. I dug this in a small orchard at the 1790's home of our host. The creepy part is, my guess for oldest coin was 1857. Add to the fact, my wife's first name starts with an S.

2) Hunting locally, at a vacant lot where a 1908 home once stood, I dug this chunk of concrete. Erractic signal, bouncing from high 40's to high 60's on my MXT, I had hopes of an entombed Indianhead. Brought it home, and sat it beside my computer for a week or so, to add to the anticipation.
Now my wife suppports my hobby, but could care less about it otherwise. However, this peaked her curiosity. So, we made a date out of it (yes, I'm such the romantic). At the time, we were redoing our kitchen, so right in the middle, on my tablesaw, I took a hammer and an old paddlebit and commenced to cracking it. As it broke into seperate pieces, my wife would run the pieces under the coil to see which piece it was in. Finally, it started to surface. I started to get more excited, as the edge seemed larger in diameter than an Indian. I'm now thinking large cent. Then it showed it's edge having curve. We ended up with a Cunard shipping lines button.
I knew of the more famous ocean ships of the Cunard line, but was unaware that the majority of their business came from producing riverboats. Started making more sense. Kansas City is a river town. So we tried to come up with theories on how it got there. I visualized it falling off a sailors jacket, while helping a friend build a home. Or several variations of this theme. However, a guy in our club suggested it might of been dredged out of the river while clearing a sand bar. And the sand used for local construction.
Anyway, thanks for lookin....
Regards,
Jules