Gold rush site yields WW1 relic

[winslow]

When out for a couple of hours the other day near a gold rush era site and found the usual stuff:

musket ball
pick- axe
Chinese opium tin
old button
memorial penny (Ha!)

All fun stuff. While cleaning out the junk section of pouch I looked more closely at a clip thingy and thought I saw some writing on it. Yea ... Pat Feb 20 17. Gave me something to research. Surprised to find that it was the metal part of a WW1 era pistol lanyard. Never would have guessed that! The braided cloth is long gone but what a nice surprise. Included a picture of what the original would have looked like.

 

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[dirtdigginfool]

Nice finds, Winslow...I bet in your neck of the woods there is no shortage of picks, shovels, lantern parts etc. in the ground. Would be nice to see a cleaned up pic of the opium tin, again something that was popular in that area. Congrats, Ddf.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[vpnavy]

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, congrats!