If you could know all about a best find - Which would it be?

Iron Patch

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If you could pick one find you've dug to know everything about it, which one would it be? Say it was a 2 hour movie... from the time it was made, everywhere it went and who owned it up until being lost, then you digging it up at the end. (yeah it's Winter)
 

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This is an easy one for me...I know who made it, I know when it was made but I would love to know who exactly used it and for what.

BTW...it's a silver whistle. The shield gives me hope that it may have had a military application...
 

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romeo-1 said:
This is an easy one for me...I know who made it, I know when it was made but I would love to know who exactly used it and for what.

BTW...it's a silver whistle. The shield gives me hope that it may have had a military application...


Funny because the one I decided on is from the same site! What are the chances of that considering how many places we have both hunted and the thousands of targets dug.

Masonic ring. I know who owned it, where he was born, where he moved, and where he ended up. I also know roughly about the decade it was lost.. but would love to know everything in between about him and the ring.
 

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There's probably a pretty good chance that these two relics were in very close proximity at their time of usage...
 

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romeo-1 said:
There's probably a pretty good chance that these two relics were in very close proximity at their time of usage...


All that separated them was the "Rosa Hill", the rest we'll never know.
 

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My pick was quite simple and would have to be the 18th century copper pipe that I excavated in October. From the country tavern to the settler's own home, it would tell a story that only the rough-at-heart could handle. :laughing7: I know two things about the owner of this pipe.

1.) When he quarreled, he won. :boxing:
2.) He did not wear no girly ring. :-X :wink: :laughing9: :laughing7: :laughing9: :laughing7:

Kirk :wave:
 

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I would love to know the story behind this. Especially who owned it. :icon_thumright:
 

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I know that this one was charred from a church fire that happened about 1899.
Had to clean the crap out of it, it looked like a piece of iron when I dug it up.
 

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My choice is a Blacksmith Token. I think it would be interesting to see how this "coin" came to life and ended up in Vermont for me to find.

Cool thread :headbang: VPR

 

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I would like to meet and talk to everyone who touched this Phoneix button. Made in England for the Haitian military in the early 19th century. They were never delivered because the Haitian king was over thrown. Evidently the entire shipment was sold to and shiped to an oregon trading post and shipped via the Hawaian Islands and then around cape horn then back up north to the oregon coast. There they were used to trade with the natives and the spainish missioneries along the west coast from southern california to Alaska . Very few have been found east of the mississippi river . This small cuff button intended for regiment # 5 . Was found in Orrington, Maine. In the spring of 2010. The site is where they used to build schooners back in it's hey day ! M.R.
 

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African American Soldier from the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers......need I say more?
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Iron Patch said:
If you could pick one find you've dug to know everything about it, which one would it be? Say it was a 2 hour movie... from the time it was made, everywhere it went and who owned it up until being lost, then you digging it up at the end. (yeah it's Winter)
I wonder who might have lost this copper, the date seems to relate to the war, who knows for sure. Brian C.
 

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Brian C.

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Kirk PA said:
My pick was quite simple and would have to be the 18th century copper pipe that I excavated in October. From the country tavern to the settler's own home, it would tell a story that only the rough-at-heart could handle. :laughing7: I know two things about the owner of this pipe.

1.) When he quarreled, he won. :boxing:
2.) He did not wear no girly ring. :-X :wink: :laughing9: :laughing7: :laughing9: :laughing7:

Kirk :wave:
Nice early copper pipe.
 

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Brian C. said:
Iron Patch said:
If you could pick one find you've dug to know everything about it, which one would it be? Say it was a 2 hour movie... from the time it was made, everywhere it went and who owned it up until being lost, then you digging it up at the end. (yeah it's Winter)
I wonder who might have lost this copper, the date seems to relate to the war, who knows for sure. Brian C.

Actually... Tiffin tokens date to the 1830s and were made with old dies for the purpose of evading laws to get them into the country.
 

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Iron Patch said:
Brian C. said:
Iron Patch said:
If you could pick one find you've dug to know everything about it, which one would it be? Say it was a 2 hour movie... from the time it was made, everywhere it went and who owned it up until being lost, then you digging it up at the end. (yeah it's Winter)
I wonder who might have lost this copper, the date seems to relate to the war, who knows for sure. Brian C.

Actually... Tiffin tokens date to the 1830s and were made with old dies for the purpose of evading laws to get them into the country.
Sneaky little buggers. :icon_pirat:
 

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Brian C. said:
Iron Patch said:
Brian C. said:
Iron Patch said:
If you could pick one find you've dug to know everything about it, which one would it be? Say it was a 2 hour movie... from the time it was made, everywhere it went and who owned it up until being lost, then you digging it up at the end. (yeah it's Winter)
I wonder who might have lost this copper, the date seems to relate to the war, who knows for sure. Brian C.

Actually... Tiffin tokens date to the 1830s and were made with old dies for the purpose of evading laws to get them into the country.
Sneaky little buggers. :icon_pirat:


Yes they were but the banks caught on and wouldn't accept them as currency, just the value of the metal.
 

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I don't know about a 'best' find but my most curious came some 30 years ago when I found the remains of an old revolver buried on the site of a long gone barn hard fast on the banks of a long defunct canal. No picture of the revolver was ever made and the relic itself got pitched out with other junk some 10 years ago, but I often wondered why that gun was buried in the dirt floor of that old barn. I figured the barn was used as a collection point for items to be shipped on the canal and as such it's a fair to middlin bet a canal worker hid the gun there. I often wondered if he didn't use the weapon along the canal line somewhere and hid it where I found it.
 

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Without being too redundant (I just posted this item in another Ironpatch thread). This is probably the one item I'd like most to "see" it's history.
Coin was found in Maine, near the coast, in a small orchard, beside a 1790's home.

I can imagine a sailor, working this coin, while at sea, in anticipation of seeing his women upon his return. In it's present condition, I assume it didn't spend long as a "coin". How was it lost? Did the lady it was made for simply loose it while picking fruit? Or, did she throw it down while fighting with her man in the orchard? How long did she wear it before it was lost? My movie might be a very short film......
 

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