hey, what about relics from the 20's and 30's?

[scaupus]

Rollfast made bikes from the 1890's to 1970's. From what I've seen this may be a 30's bicycle shield, but if anyone knows better, please let me know. Some Rollfasts are very collectible and pretty expensive.

The Marmon silver-plated badge is from a 1903-1933 luxury car company; this badge is from the '20's I think.

Both of these were pretty exciting finds, both from the history aspect, and as collectibles, though I'm sure the fairly rough condition of these lower their value.

I think I'm detecting into a layer that was a junkyard for possibly decades. There was a significant and historic, pioneer business under the junkyard - can't divulge what until I'm done trying to get into it, unfortunately I'm not at all confident I can get through the deep layer of thousands of pieces of junkyard stuff. The only consolation is that the same junk may have deterred earlier detectorists, if not archeologists. Anyway, I'm not complaining, these badges were a pleasant surprise.

The Rollfast badge:




How the Marmon badge looked right out of the ground:



How it looked a bit cleaned up.




How it looks now, as cleaned up as i can get it. I find silver jewelry, and this is jewelry basically, very hard to photograph, it always comes out looking so dull compared to the real object:

[Woodland Detectors]

That's a great looking relic!

[montepollock]

I love the Marmon Badge,a great piece of automotive history.
Id be happy to display these in my "Relic"collection.
HH,Mont

[scaupus]

I love the Marmon Badge,a great piece of automotive history.
Id be happy to display these in my "Relic"collection.
HH,Mont

Thank you. See my latest relic, one from the hippie era - a handcrafted silver hash pipe!

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...tml#msg2932935