A Saxon Site - Day 3...

[CRUSADER]

A short hunt of only 2 hours 45mins. We turned up some pretty good finds & the recent rain helped a little.

2 Scrappies
Livery Button
Circa 1800 Royal Horse Guards Button
Rare bit of Saxon Pottery
2 Jettons (1 good 1)
Mystery Ancient bit??
Chinese Coin Ch'ien Lung coins c. 1736-1795
Only had 1 other example & this is the best Scottish Eighth Thistle Merk 1601-03
17th C Seal Matrix (Dad's find of the day!)

 

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[oxbowbarefoot]

Cru, if you had to estimate, how many hammered silvers do you think you've dug in your MD career?

 

[CRUSADER]

Cru, if you had to estimate, how many hammered silvers do you think you've dug in your MD career?

Dads records have 634 for the both of us, but good records started some years after I started. So I guess, that as I get the majority it would be close to 500.

 

[Scrappy]

Beauty hunt Cru. The Scottish is a real looker and the wax stamping you did really hits home. How old do you think the wax stamp is?

 

[CRUSADER]

Beauty hunt Cru. The Scottish is a real looker and the wax stamping you did really hits home. How old do you think the wax stamp is?

Circa 1650.

 

[CASPER-2]

LUV THAT SEAL AND THAT SILVER !

 

[DFW_THer]

Am I the only one that immediately opens up a new tab for eBay as soon as they click on a Crusader post?

Good show as usual. Always quality.

 

[Limey-digger]

Nice and productive quick hunt the Scottish hammered is a beauty and your dads fob seal was a nice dig. Never seen one of those horse guards buttons, very impressive.

George...

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Not quite your usual quantity, but you definitely have some nice keepers in there. Love the seal matrix and jetton, and of course the silver. BTW - my buddy Dan has used the following website to help ID Chinese coins. I've never really checked it out, but it might be of some use in ID'ing your coin.

Chinese coins

 

[CRUSADER]

Not quite your usual quantity, but you definitely have some nice keepers in there. Love the seal matrix and jetton, and of course the silver. BTW - my buddy Dan has used the following website to help ID Chinese coins. I've never really checked it out, but it might be of some use in ID'ing your coin.

Chinese coins

Thanks for the link, but its not one I'm going to spend time on. I was hoping someone more experienced in these could chime in.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Your Dad really hit a home run with his 17th C Seal Matrix find Cru!
Too bad our Toronto Blue Jays couldn't do the same thing yesterday against the Texas Rangers here in Toronto!

Dave

 

[pepperj]

Great looking seal and one of those makes me heart ache with want every time I see one dug. The Scottish Thistle is a nice ham nice and crisp still, though clipped pretty good it seems. Just wondering which piece of pottery you're referring to in picture #2 as I picked up a similar piece as the striped one.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great looking seal and one of those makes me heart ache with want every time I see one dug. The Scottish Thistle is a nice ham nice and crisp still, though clipped pretty good it seems. Just wondering which piece of pottery you're referring to in picture #2 as I picked up a similar piece as the striped one.

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The left piece, not the 17th C slipware.

 

[CRUSADER]

Your Dad really hit a home run with his 17th C Seal Matrix find Cru!
Too bad our Toronto Blue Jays couldn't do the same thing yesterday against the Texas Rangers here in Toronto!

Dave

Yeap, one of our best examples of its type.

 

[pepperj]

The left piece, not the 17th C slipware.

Thanks Cru, I just looked up and read the process of slipware, I have wondered a few times how it was made, the pieces came off a fair site that I discovered a few years back.

 

[Mackaydon]

Scottish Eighth thistle-merk (James VI)
"Regem iova Protegit"
Great find !!

Your Chinese coin: Emperor Kao Tsung AD 1736-1795 (reign title: CH'IEN-LUNG) Turn top pick 180 degrees and turn the other pic 90 degrees clockwise for correct positioning.

Don.....

 

[CRUSADER]

Scottish Eighth thistle-merk (James VI)
"Regem iova Protegit"
Great find !!

Your Chinese coin: Emperor Kao Tsung AD 1736-1795 (reign title: CH'IEN-LUNG) Turn top pick 180 degrees and turn the other pic 90 degrees clockwise for correct positioning.

Don.....

THANKS

 

[Argentium]

That Thistle Merk Rocks ! - another great hunt - the hits just keep coming !