Sentimental find

psgen

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Value wise this isn't my best find .............. but oh the sentimental value....................which makes it priceless........and one of my best finds ever..........................here is the story..............short and brief.


I was detecting in my father's yard, the homestead cleared and built by my great-grandfather around 1850......I got a strong singal showing $1 at 4".................eagerly digging, 4" came and went....... yet the singal remained very strong and constant....... pinpointer couldn't locate it......... so I kept diggin, after 10" I finally found the source of the signal, which at first I thought was and old tin can..........I completed the dig and it was an old toy shovel........wow!! ......... to which my father replied my shovel, that's my shovel..... I lost that when I was about 3 years old..........there use to be a sand pile right here.....and then the stories began, which is what it is all about the history...I have made a new handle for this prize and proudly display it in my living room.....
 

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Nana40

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AWWW! What a great story!! :D That HAS to be really special! Makes me wanna cry a little..... :)

Great find indeed! :D

Nana ;)
 

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retro-redux

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that truly is a valuable find-be proud of your persistence to find what was down that hole:)
Laura
 

alabamadan

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That's the best find I've read about...

Brought to mind the commercial where the boy was playing with a ship on the beach and lost it. Years later as a man he's surfing eBay and....

If I were a woman I would cry.
 

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T-Rex

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I had a similar find a couple weeks ago... I was out in front of a real old church yard where my grandparents are buried and got a carbon copy hit to what you described... my Dad was with me and he plucked it out of the ground about 4 or 5 inches...

It was the Churches old coal shovel they used to heat the place... it was minus the handle but it made my Dad very happy to find it so I let him keep it...
 

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