It really was a Good Friday

[Old Dude]

Hi all. Yesterday I met a friend from here for the first time after we discovered that we hunt the same sites. He is Wyoming Valley Relics. We really hit it off and talked like 2 old women for hours, lol. We decided to do a hunt today and met up at a cornfield that gave me my very first musket ball. WVR ( he is a Dave also ) got there before me after looking the site over last night on some old maps. He met me with his first discovery - a nice Merc. We hunted around where an old school once stood and dug some iron targets, then decided to move out into the field where the silver had been. We both dug fairly modern buckles and I got a nice green wheat. On my next good target I dug a large crotal. I was pretty happy with it even though it had a chunk missing from probably a plow. I discovered later after cleaning it still had the clinker ( or whatever it is called ) packed inside with the mud. I dug a couple more wheats, the little gilded metal box and found the pretty pink glass bottleneck on top of the ground. Dave was VERY excited to dig his very first crotal, a small little one with patent date on it and once he cleaned it, he discovered a fragment of cloth or thread on it. We aren't sure how it was attached. Looking for help from you experts please! Dave dug an old ball that he thought was a buck and ball but I think is a pistol ball. He doesn't have scale or calipers yet so I will weigh and measure it for him soon and update this thread. After cleaning his bell, he discovered it still rings and sounds like Christmas!

Thanks for looking. We enjoyed our first hunt together!

 

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[AQUA]

Looks like an awesome day out....

I hunted all last year alone....this year I hunt with Cousin Ed a lot...is much better ...don,t care that I lose a few finds..just nice to have some company.

Makes the day go better.

Great finds...those Mercs are nice coins !

 

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[Old Dude]

I agree very much with you, Aqua. We were not in any competition whatsoever. I actually was just as happy to see his great finds as he was himself. I was especially happy to see him dig that crotal bell after he said he had never dug one.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Now that was a great hunt Dave!
Loved the video of Dave listening to his crotal bell find!

Dave

 

[Old Dude]

Now that was a great hunt Dave!
Loved the video of Dave listening to his crotal bell find!

Dave

Dave, thank you very much from both us Daves, lol!

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Very nice finds - intact crotals are always fun!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Great hunt! Nice Merc and bells! I appreciate the sound effects, I haven't found a crotal bell yet and have no idea what they sound like.
You two get my vote video production- short sweet and to the point! Now if you could just do something about with TV content,the world would be a better place!

 

[jewelerguy]

cool stuff

 

[Wyoming Valley Relics]

Just wanted to thank everyone for there great replies. I hope everyone has as much luck and fun as we did. HH

 

[detroitdigger]

Nice finds

 

[WHADIFIND]

Good company, good weather, good finds. Don't get much better.

 

[Evolution]

I love that site pic of the cornfield. There's nothing like hunting a cornfield and turning up old relics. Just a great feeling.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Nice haul!

 

[surf]

The bottle neck is flint Glass it had a high level of magnese in the glass
that caused sunlight to turn it that color. They stopped making around 1900
looks like it was tooled top whisky or med...

Hello LIM,

Manganese Dioxide is a decolorizing agent that has been employed by glassmakers since as early as the 2nd Century BC. I strongly doubt that that top is flint glass, unless you are using "flint" to mean colorless.

The use of Manganese Dioxide was stopped just before the First World War, as the sources, at that time, were in Europe. Subsequently Selenium became the principal decolorizing agent.

See here: Solarized Glass | Corning Museum of Glass

Insulators CD 145-162​