Yard Finds

[core028]

I've been on TN for some time and made a few posts but have yet to post any finds. i guess it time to start posting some of my finds since I've had time to do some detecting. I found these in my yard under a very large old oak tree. My house was built in 1934. Some of the older folks in my neighborhood have told me that my yard was a favorite of the neighboorhood kids. I have quite an unusual lot for an old historic neighborhood in the middle of town its 3 acres and every other lot in town is usually less than an acre. Well anyway back to my finds. I found a really cool looking toy tank, old junior G man Badge, 2 old game tokens, and several wheat's, along with other less interesting finds. I have several other sites to detect, some from the early to mid 1800's and hope to post some good finds from them when I get the chance to hunt.
Thanks
P.S. If anyone has any info on the dates of these finds I please let me know. I think they would be from the 30's or 40's.

 

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[Nashoba]

With a start like that, I would be detecting that three acres for a very very long time. That's quite a chunk of ground. Cool digs and thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing you post more yard goodies!
~Nashoba~

 

[JerV3]

Nice finds,

Love the eagle looking pin.

HH Jer

 

[Alchemy]

Nice...it'd be fun to detect there.

The Junior G Man badge is cool...probably from the 30's
Some poor kid back then was no doubt bummed out when they last that

 

[River Rat]

That tank is such a cutie. A remarkable find. I'm sure you will be finding many more goodies, keep us posted.

RR

 

[Night Stalker]

Nice digs Core...I like the badge. Thanks for sharing and HH!

 

[nate1976]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Junior-G-Man-Me...ryZ39719QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem or Possibly this http://cgi.ebay.com/JUNIOR-G-MAN-CO...ryZ39719QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

 

[core028]

Thanks for the nice comments. Yeah I have a lot of ground to cover just in my yard. I really enjoy everybodies posts and hope to make many more good finds to share with everybody. I just posted, in what is it, a pic of an old pocket knife I found about a month ago. I found it detecting a house built in 1830 and am wondering how old th knife is. Thanks again guys.

 

[core028]

Thanks Nate that looks pretty close.

 

[nate1976]

No problem 8)

 

[Snee]

Nice!

 

[Hardy]

Not bad at all !, love the Badge

 

[DigMO]

Nice finds,Core.Like finding those old toys.That GMan badge is really cool.WTG!

 

[Southcacalaky]

Great digs !! HH Art...

 

[Dharmacy]

A little background on the badge. It is indeed a Melvin Purvis Junior G-Man badge. These were give out as premuims by Post Cereal in boxes of Post Toasties. The Jr. G-Man badge was offered from 03/08/1936 thru 12/21/1936. The total number of badges reported made was 7,902. The Tomart catalog number for this piece is M302.

Here is a short background on Melvin Purvis:

Melvin Purvis was prpbably Post Cereal's most sucessful cereal box, newspaper and magazine-promoted personality designed to compete with the radio serials. Purvis was a true-life hero; the FBI man who supposedly ended the crime careers of many of the nations top-wanted fugitives. Contrary to information published, Joe Pinkston of the John Dillinger Museum, in Nashville Indiana, relates that Purvis ( whom he knew), did not kill Dillinger, was fired from the FBI because J. Edgar Hoover didn't like sharing the publicity, and didn't die until 1960.....of a suspected suicide.

D.

 

[Nana40]

GREAT badge! Sounds like you will be posting more goodies from that yard!

Congrats on your finds! Nana

 

[ringfinder]

Great finds, really like the G-man badge. Thanks for posting the pictures. If I had a yard like that, I would be detecting it all my free time.

Wait till next spring when the ground is good and wet. I can't wait to see the goodies you dig out of their then.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[core028]

Thanks everyone for the comments. Thanks Dharmacy for the info on the badge. I plan on detecting the yard tomorrow for a while. The temp is going to be in the high 40's and we have had some rain the past two days so the ground will be easy to dig. I'm really looking forward to deer season being over since most of the really old sites I have permission to hunt have people hunting them. So far everyone I have asked for permission to hunt their property has said " sure just wait for deer season to be over " . I don't want to mess anybodies hunt up and really don't feel like getting shot Well anyway I hope everyone has a good weekend.
Thanks
core

 

[ramjet2187]

Great finds, core. I know how you feel about the sites being 'hunted' another way, but with a yard with potential like yours...............man, if there's wheats, there's GOTTA be Mercs, Buffaloes, ....Barbers....who knows?

Continued good luck, and keep us posted!!

Roger

 

[romeo-1]

I wanna be a Junior G Man!