Fire damaged silver and pocket watches from an old homesite...plus half the kitchen.

[TrpnBils]

I went with a buddy of mine to a homesite we identified from the insane amount of daffodils blooming there right now. The land owner says it had a house on it that burned in the 50s. I found an IHP there the other night and my buddy found an 1807 large cent there the following night. Today we hit it hard for about 5 hours and scored big. He smoked me with a Franklin half (fire damaged)and a colonial copper of some kind we can't ID yet, but I ended up scoring a variety of things.

I got two pocket watches (one of which is intact). Both are destroyed though with melted metal clearly visible. I may take one of them apart to see if the face is still intact...they're doing me no good and I'll probably pitch them anyway with the shape they're in. Also got the following:

• Commemorative "medal" (for lack of a better word) reading "June 10-16, 1906 Centennial Celebration, Meriden Conn" (it's for Meriden, Connecticut's centennial celebration...how it got here I have no idea)
• 1949 Roosevelt dime with heavy fire damage. I thought it was a cob at first because it was so bizarre looking on the reverse
• 1946 Roosevelt dime
• 1911 V nickel with fire damage

While my buddy was finding his half dollar, I was apparently in the homestead dump. I got a massive nickel signal and popped three spoons in the plug. Just for the heck of it I kept going and ended up pulling out basically an entire silverware set (not silver, by the way) out of the same hole just using the pinpointer. Later on I found another spoon which was silver plated (Oxford Silver Plate Co). I cleaned that one up as much as I could and wax sealed it. The others aren't anything special, but I wanted to get a picture of the whole lot because the circumstances surrounding it were ridiculous.

At any rate, the fire damaged dime brought me to 100 career keeper coins (not counting wheats) and the others brought me up to 102. The two dimes brought me up to 49 career silver coins also, so I did cross a personal goal off today. That tally started from 2 years ago when I got my Etrac. Not super high numbers, but it's something!

 

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[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[against the wind]

Well done, ,
Sounds like you had a fun time.
Congrats

 

[thrifty76now]

That Meriden medal alone would make my day happy.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Looks like the both of you scored. That's a nice producing site.

 

[scruggs]

Nice finds and the fire makes them more interesting! Nice score!!