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1920's house dozed.
The earth in Dallas is like chocolate cake, nice and soft! But the earth has also been stingy with the goods which is why I haven't posted lately. A few months ago I did post some finds from a local site. The Texas Confederate Veterans medal along with the Texas State Fair medal and a Ft.Worth bar token. The vacant house which these find were closely located was recently dozed so I detected. Here is what I found:
First a series of shots of a letter opener. The letter opener has some history behind it. It says "The Morten-Davis Manufacturing Company". Read this if you are interested: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/oedfb.html
Next, a hand carved shell buckle I found on the surface.
The next shot is of something they probably handed out the kids when they were crossing guards at school.
Next, 2 silver plated spoons.
Finally the "Coup de Grace", a merchant token. The reverse is blank. Obverse reads "GOOD FOR 5c J.S. HAGINS PLANO TEX." Plano was settled in 1845 and ol' J.S. was born in 1852 and passed in 1914 so the Collin County genealogy site says. Notice how the 5c in lightly stamped. Am I wrong to think that ol J.S. could stamp these tokens in various denomations and possibly have stamped that one himself?
The earth in Dallas is like chocolate cake, nice and soft! But the earth has also been stingy with the goods which is why I haven't posted lately. A few months ago I did post some finds from a local site. The Texas Confederate Veterans medal along with the Texas State Fair medal and a Ft.Worth bar token. The vacant house which these find were closely located was recently dozed so I detected. Here is what I found:
First a series of shots of a letter opener. The letter opener has some history behind it. It says "The Morten-Davis Manufacturing Company". Read this if you are interested: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/oedfb.html
Next, a hand carved shell buckle I found on the surface.
The next shot is of something they probably handed out the kids when they were crossing guards at school.
Next, 2 silver plated spoons.
Finally the "Coup de Grace", a merchant token. The reverse is blank. Obverse reads "GOOD FOR 5c J.S. HAGINS PLANO TEX." Plano was settled in 1845 and ol' J.S. was born in 1852 and passed in 1914 so the Collin County genealogy site says. Notice how the 5c in lightly stamped. Am I wrong to think that ol J.S. could stamp these tokens in various denomations and possibly have stamped that one himself?
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I've been into photography for a quite a number of years, so trust me dude, your renditions are flawless. 8) ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
I know there are many members in this forum who would be pretty interested in that type of data as well. 
the Coup de Grace Merchant Token best of all too, especially what with the ?olive? oil perhaps, slow soak method of coin treatment, still slowly makin' that ol' beauty, come even more back to life for all your lucky viewers...
