paleomaxx
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- Aug 14, 2016
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I actually dug these the day before my GW find, but it's been such a crazy week that I've only just now been able to clean/preserve them. This was a different cellar hole a few towns away that looked very promising based on the maps, but had been hunted at least once before. There were signs of holes all over, but they missed a fair number of targets under brush and around logs so it wasn't a dud. Of key interest is this 1838 large cent that the deus isolated in the middle a an iron nest:
I could immediately tell it had good detail left, but it wasn't until I started cleaning it that I noticed the counterstamp. One side is "Patent" and the other is "Applied For." I know a good number of these counterstamps were advertisements of some kind, but this one seems particularly oblique. It is in the list of know counterstamps, but there's no additional information or who it's attributed too. Very weird.
There was one other coin, a Connecticut copper, but it's a but more toasty so I can't get the date or type off it.
The hunt produced a good number of buttons including one dandy and an odd 2-piece basket weave like button.
I also found a nice brass pocketknife, a brass furniture decoration, and what I think is part of a bull nose ring, but I'm not 100% on that.
The mystery is this piece though:
It certainly looks early and definitely hand made, or at least the carvings are. Can anyone identify it?
The rest of the hunt were bits and pieces, quite a few pewter and lead chunks, as well as some nice pottery. It was an enjoyable hunt, but there probably isn't too much more to be found at this spot so the research continues!
I could immediately tell it had good detail left, but it wasn't until I started cleaning it that I noticed the counterstamp. One side is "Patent" and the other is "Applied For." I know a good number of these counterstamps were advertisements of some kind, but this one seems particularly oblique. It is in the list of know counterstamps, but there's no additional information or who it's attributed too. Very weird.
There was one other coin, a Connecticut copper, but it's a but more toasty so I can't get the date or type off it.
The hunt produced a good number of buttons including one dandy and an odd 2-piece basket weave like button.
I also found a nice brass pocketknife, a brass furniture decoration, and what I think is part of a bull nose ring, but I'm not 100% on that.
The mystery is this piece though:
It certainly looks early and definitely hand made, or at least the carvings are. Can anyone identify it?
The rest of the hunt were bits and pieces, quite a few pewter and lead chunks, as well as some nice pottery. It was an enjoyable hunt, but there probably isn't too much more to be found at this spot so the research continues!
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