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- Apr 16, 2013
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I spent about 7 hours in the field today and while the finds were hard to come by, I managed to squeeze a few more keepers out. The big white thing at the top is a big piece of melted lead.
I dug another of these pewter toy colonial plates today. Until this afternoon, I guessed that these were bases to a candle holder or something. However there's no solder marks or anything that would suggest it was attached to something larger. I shared a picture of this plate from today with Bill D and he identified it as most likely a child's toy from the 18th c. A quick google search backed this up. Really cool.. I would have never guessed these were colonial toys, the equivalent to doll house dinnerware! I have a picture of all three pieces I have dug here at the bottom of this post. The other two have been pictured in previous posts from this year and I didn't really mention them since I didnt know what they were. Its GREAT to have an ID on these and its a pretty cool ID at that.
Got a couple cool buttons. The brass button has a iron back. It appears to have XXX etched on the front of it. I'm going to guess that googling "XXX button" will not help me ID that. Haha
One of my flat buttons is a cuff button and has a eagle on the entire back of it. Pretty cool. I've dug a few flat buttons that have a small eagle on the top of the back, but never a small cuff one with a big eagle on it.
It had been a slow day with a hand full of buttons. I was digging a target that was deep and scratchy and wouldn't be surprised if it was a button or a nail. Because it was such a bad signal and very deep, it pinpointed way off when I dug my plug. I was very surprised to pop this out of the bottom corner at 9"... I thought it was a button, but quickly noticed it was a KGII... then I flipped it over and saw that I trashed it with my digger. It doesn't happen often, but it always sucks when it does happen. This copper is worn smooth, but its at least identifiable.
This is the 3rd pewter toy dinnerware piece I have dug in the same general area. They are hard to come by, as they are a low tone and very deep... so the one from today had a bit of an iron grunt until I got it to the surface.
I dug another of these pewter toy colonial plates today. Until this afternoon, I guessed that these were bases to a candle holder or something. However there's no solder marks or anything that would suggest it was attached to something larger. I shared a picture of this plate from today with Bill D and he identified it as most likely a child's toy from the 18th c. A quick google search backed this up. Really cool.. I would have never guessed these were colonial toys, the equivalent to doll house dinnerware! I have a picture of all three pieces I have dug here at the bottom of this post. The other two have been pictured in previous posts from this year and I didn't really mention them since I didnt know what they were. Its GREAT to have an ID on these and its a pretty cool ID at that.
Got a couple cool buttons. The brass button has a iron back. It appears to have XXX etched on the front of it. I'm going to guess that googling "XXX button" will not help me ID that. Haha
One of my flat buttons is a cuff button and has a eagle on the entire back of it. Pretty cool. I've dug a few flat buttons that have a small eagle on the top of the back, but never a small cuff one with a big eagle on it.
It had been a slow day with a hand full of buttons. I was digging a target that was deep and scratchy and wouldn't be surprised if it was a button or a nail. Because it was such a bad signal and very deep, it pinpointed way off when I dug my plug. I was very surprised to pop this out of the bottom corner at 9"... I thought it was a button, but quickly noticed it was a KGII... then I flipped it over and saw that I trashed it with my digger. It doesn't happen often, but it always sucks when it does happen. This copper is worn smooth, but its at least identifiable.
This is the 3rd pewter toy dinnerware piece I have dug in the same general area. They are hard to come by, as they are a low tone and very deep... so the one from today had a bit of an iron grunt until I got it to the surface.
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Congrats and HH!
