West Jersey Detecting
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Irish KG III Hibernia Halfpenny and part of a 1860's Tobacco Pipe!
With only a few days of DST remaining, I decided to get in a quick hunt before dinner yesterday. I went to a local site that I have not hit before. It is too obvious a site and I figured the chances it has not been hit were zero to none. I was correct in that fact. I could see signs of previous detecting...twist off signals put back in the ground with the plug put on top, etc. I stayed about an hour, only finding twist-offs.
I made my way back to the parking lot and about 20 yards from my car I got a penny/dime reading at 4.5 inches. Figuring it was another one for the coin jar I dug a plug and was surprised to see the large copper with all the details. In fact the details were so sharp when the coin was moist for a second I thought I had found a 1960's QE One Pence! Then I realized I had a KGIII, but it was not until I got home and cleaned it that I realized it was in Irish Halfpenny!
About 3 yards away I got a deep low tone like foil, but I decided to dig it and dug another bittersweet find, a broken pewter shoe buckle!
I slowed down and gave a thorough search of the area, but the sun was starting to get very low in the sky. I dug a small flat button, and two "whattizits". One may be nothing more than a curled up shotgun shell back, but I dont think so.
The other "whattizit" is part of a tobacco pipe made by Nax & Kuhn who were in business in Philadelphia in the 1870's.
This is from Scientific American in 1864:
[Patent] 43,416 Tobacco Pipe Albert Kuhn & Leonard Nax Philadelphia Pa We claim the arrangement ot the chamber C between the bowl R and stem A in combination with the receptacle D and the Inclosed stem c substantially as described and set forth for the purposes specified
As they say, no site is ever completely hunted out!
With only a few days of DST remaining, I decided to get in a quick hunt before dinner yesterday. I went to a local site that I have not hit before. It is too obvious a site and I figured the chances it has not been hit were zero to none. I was correct in that fact. I could see signs of previous detecting...twist off signals put back in the ground with the plug put on top, etc. I stayed about an hour, only finding twist-offs.
I made my way back to the parking lot and about 20 yards from my car I got a penny/dime reading at 4.5 inches. Figuring it was another one for the coin jar I dug a plug and was surprised to see the large copper with all the details. In fact the details were so sharp when the coin was moist for a second I thought I had found a 1960's QE One Pence! Then I realized I had a KGIII, but it was not until I got home and cleaned it that I realized it was in Irish Halfpenny!
About 3 yards away I got a deep low tone like foil, but I decided to dig it and dug another bittersweet find, a broken pewter shoe buckle!
I slowed down and gave a thorough search of the area, but the sun was starting to get very low in the sky. I dug a small flat button, and two "whattizits". One may be nothing more than a curled up shotgun shell back, but I dont think so.
The other "whattizit" is part of a tobacco pipe made by Nax & Kuhn who were in business in Philadelphia in the 1870's.
This is from Scientific American in 1864:
[Patent] 43,416 Tobacco Pipe Albert Kuhn & Leonard Nax Philadelphia Pa We claim the arrangement ot the chamber C between the bowl R and stem A in combination with the receptacle D and the Inclosed stem c substantially as described and set forth for the purposes specified
As they say, no site is ever completely hunted out!
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