digger27
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In the woods near a site with the oldest history I have ever hunted I find this key.
Gotta be modern, I assume, it looks nothing like the other skeleton keys I have found which are all rusted so odd but cool.
In a lawn I have been hunting all summer there aren't many good signals left at all but I still hit it here and there hoping for just one more good target.
The other day I got one, a key fob from the Paul Revere Insurance company that started in 1930 and is still around.
Many on fleabay, from what I can gather the earlier ones below one million on the ID numbers say, "If injured or unable to identify me telegraph this number to the Paul Revere life insurance company".
Numbers over a million they changed to just notify the company like mine.
I am guessing mine is from the mid 30's to the 40's or so....but I really don't know for sure.
Another thing is they seemed to have been made from different metals over the decades.
Some were aluminum, many appeared to be made from bronze or brass, mine is actually some sort of white metal, (but not aluminum), under that dark color that I think may be nickel...could be pewter.
Mine is worn so probably carried around for a long time, a better bronze non-dug example with more details also shown below.
I may have more detail but I need to clean it much better to find out.
This is a bit bigger than a quarter at 28mm's, comes in at a 41 on my Fisher which is higher than my regular lower 30's nickel number but it is bigger than a nickel too.
Also it is really dark and hard to clean exactly like the old nickels I find around here.
One day I will get some nickel testing solution and find out for sure.
Another odd but neat find and way better than junk.
Been a long hot dry summer around here so hunting has slowed down and still in the high 80's but soon enough our cooler and wetter fall season will begin and I hope to find more cool stuff before the end of the year and then into next year.
Gotta be modern, I assume, it looks nothing like the other skeleton keys I have found which are all rusted so odd but cool.
In a lawn I have been hunting all summer there aren't many good signals left at all but I still hit it here and there hoping for just one more good target.
The other day I got one, a key fob from the Paul Revere Insurance company that started in 1930 and is still around.
Many on fleabay, from what I can gather the earlier ones below one million on the ID numbers say, "If injured or unable to identify me telegraph this number to the Paul Revere life insurance company".
Numbers over a million they changed to just notify the company like mine.
I am guessing mine is from the mid 30's to the 40's or so....but I really don't know for sure.
Another thing is they seemed to have been made from different metals over the decades.
Some were aluminum, many appeared to be made from bronze or brass, mine is actually some sort of white metal, (but not aluminum), under that dark color that I think may be nickel...could be pewter.
Mine is worn so probably carried around for a long time, a better bronze non-dug example with more details also shown below.
I may have more detail but I need to clean it much better to find out.
This is a bit bigger than a quarter at 28mm's, comes in at a 41 on my Fisher which is higher than my regular lower 30's nickel number but it is bigger than a nickel too.
Also it is really dark and hard to clean exactly like the old nickels I find around here.
One day I will get some nickel testing solution and find out for sure.
Another odd but neat find and way better than junk.
Been a long hot dry summer around here so hunting has slowed down and still in the high 80's but soon enough our cooler and wetter fall season will begin and I hope to find more cool stuff before the end of the year and then into next year.
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