washingtonian
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Hey folks,
As the calendar turned my old spots dried up. I was in search of new sites today. Unfortunately, there aren’t many super old houses (older than 1920) in my area so I drove 40 mins to another town. I know there are a lot of 1800s houses there.
Well, first house I scope out is from 1889. The owners were super friendly and interested and told me to give their yard a go. It was pretty slow, only a couple wheats to show for a couple hours of work so I moved across the street.
Those folks were also super accommodating. Their house is from 1867. That doesn’t sound old to some of you, but that is mind bogglingly old for these parts.
I hadn’t found much there either. Just a wheat but I got a decent signal at five inches. When I first pulled the little pieces out, I figured it was some kind of relic spill but didn’t know exactly what it was. I suspected it might be part of a fob but it was Mike/Exhoplex that helped confirm that suspicion.
Well, I saw William H. Seward on it and thought it might date all the way back to Lincoln’s administration. After some clean up at home though, I found “Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo” on the back of the top piece. What’s so cool about that is I just listened to a 40 minute podcast this morning about the Expo and was thinking it’d be neat to find a relic from the event sometime. Well, here I am a few hours later holding one!! The Expo was held in 1909 at my alma mater, the University of Washington and was part of the grand opening of their campus on Lake Washington (it was formerly downtown).
Here’s a link to a clean copy of the fob; https://www.rubylane.com/item/700271-lgv6031/Antique-1909-Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Ex78po.
My main goal today was to try to find a seated coin. Didn’t happen so I’ll keep after it. Probably won’t be able to get back to that town until late next week unfortunately.
Good luck out there and happy hunting!
-W
As the calendar turned my old spots dried up. I was in search of new sites today. Unfortunately, there aren’t many super old houses (older than 1920) in my area so I drove 40 mins to another town. I know there are a lot of 1800s houses there.
Well, first house I scope out is from 1889. The owners were super friendly and interested and told me to give their yard a go. It was pretty slow, only a couple wheats to show for a couple hours of work so I moved across the street.
Those folks were also super accommodating. Their house is from 1867. That doesn’t sound old to some of you, but that is mind bogglingly old for these parts.
I hadn’t found much there either. Just a wheat but I got a decent signal at five inches. When I first pulled the little pieces out, I figured it was some kind of relic spill but didn’t know exactly what it was. I suspected it might be part of a fob but it was Mike/Exhoplex that helped confirm that suspicion.
Well, I saw William H. Seward on it and thought it might date all the way back to Lincoln’s administration. After some clean up at home though, I found “Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo” on the back of the top piece. What’s so cool about that is I just listened to a 40 minute podcast this morning about the Expo and was thinking it’d be neat to find a relic from the event sometime. Well, here I am a few hours later holding one!! The Expo was held in 1909 at my alma mater, the University of Washington and was part of the grand opening of their campus on Lake Washington (it was formerly downtown).
Here’s a link to a clean copy of the fob; https://www.rubylane.com/item/700271-lgv6031/Antique-1909-Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Ex78po.
My main goal today was to try to find a seated coin. Didn’t happen so I’ll keep after it. Probably won’t be able to get back to that town until late next week unfortunately.
Good luck out there and happy hunting!
-W
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