OutdoorAdv
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- Apr 16, 2013
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LC's, Cut 1748 King George, flint, flask and more...
I got out on Thurs (5/26) and yesterday (5/28) to do a little sifting. I've been in a copper slump for months now and it finally ended on Thursday with a crusty 1833 LC popping out of the side wall of the pit section. That was it for Thursday though and the rest of the pit was a bust. On Saturday I opened a different section and it was loaded! Its crazy how one small area is packed full of good non-ferrous, glass, bone and pottery and a few feet away the next section is empty!
A nice Jaw harp turned up that I tumbled and waxed, followed by a 1813 Classic Head LC that someone took a hammer to and pounded the rim until is flattened out. Was kind of bummed at this since its only my second Classic Head LC. I have lots of DB and Matron, but I just don't find many Classic Head. Another French Flintlock musket flint turns up and it looks well used. A handful of tombac buttons, shoe buckle fragments and.... Another cufflink! This one is a pewter with a drilled shank and I believe it held a paste stone at one time. The clasp is brass and has a very interesting design to it. While my 5 link streak ended many hunts ago, I have still found more cufflinks this year than I had in all the years prior.
Definitely one of my favorite finds from Saturday. I find lots of fragments like this and they are always broken cast buttons. Well I rub on this in the field and I see something on it... then I realize its a date and its a slice of a King George II Half Penny. It has "748" on the slice and the other side has the base of George's bust. I figured it was just broken because this is a very small denomination, but I believe there are chisel marks on it. You can see them on the right side of the cut on the bust side. Anyway, its a very interesting cut\broken colonial copper and something I would have never guessed. Its TINY and the Deus picked up a squeek between the nails in the clay at the bottom of the pit.
I dug the neck to this first and thought I had just found the neck to my Zachery Taylor flask that was dug a few feet away. Then the shard with the face on it surfaced and I realized I had a new flask. This is all I got from it, but I was able to get an ID on it and its pretty cool. Its a George Washington Monument Flask made between 1830-1850 commerating the George Washington Monument that was constructed in Baltimore beginning in 1813. Looking at earlier Baltimore ?Washington Monument? Historical Flasks | Peachridge Glass and here is the monument https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_(Baltimore)
The beat up Classic Head
I only do electrolysis on iron, but when the crusty 1833 LC turned up, I decided to give it a shot.
After toothpicking:
After boiling peroxide:
After 3 min in electrolysis:
I stopped after 5 minutes. I wanted to leave some of the verdigris on it. I really like the patina on a dug copper, so I dont enjoy the clean copper look, but I do love that its a coin I can ID and enjoy now.
Thanks for looking and enjoy the holiday weekend
Happy Hunting everyone.
I got out on Thurs (5/26) and yesterday (5/28) to do a little sifting. I've been in a copper slump for months now and it finally ended on Thursday with a crusty 1833 LC popping out of the side wall of the pit section. That was it for Thursday though and the rest of the pit was a bust. On Saturday I opened a different section and it was loaded! Its crazy how one small area is packed full of good non-ferrous, glass, bone and pottery and a few feet away the next section is empty!
A nice Jaw harp turned up that I tumbled and waxed, followed by a 1813 Classic Head LC that someone took a hammer to and pounded the rim until is flattened out. Was kind of bummed at this since its only my second Classic Head LC. I have lots of DB and Matron, but I just don't find many Classic Head. Another French Flintlock musket flint turns up and it looks well used. A handful of tombac buttons, shoe buckle fragments and.... Another cufflink! This one is a pewter with a drilled shank and I believe it held a paste stone at one time. The clasp is brass and has a very interesting design to it. While my 5 link streak ended many hunts ago, I have still found more cufflinks this year than I had in all the years prior.
Definitely one of my favorite finds from Saturday. I find lots of fragments like this and they are always broken cast buttons. Well I rub on this in the field and I see something on it... then I realize its a date and its a slice of a King George II Half Penny. It has "748" on the slice and the other side has the base of George's bust. I figured it was just broken because this is a very small denomination, but I believe there are chisel marks on it. You can see them on the right side of the cut on the bust side. Anyway, its a very interesting cut\broken colonial copper and something I would have never guessed. Its TINY and the Deus picked up a squeek between the nails in the clay at the bottom of the pit.
I dug the neck to this first and thought I had just found the neck to my Zachery Taylor flask that was dug a few feet away. Then the shard with the face on it surfaced and I realized I had a new flask. This is all I got from it, but I was able to get an ID on it and its pretty cool. Its a George Washington Monument Flask made between 1830-1850 commerating the George Washington Monument that was constructed in Baltimore beginning in 1813. Looking at earlier Baltimore ?Washington Monument? Historical Flasks | Peachridge Glass and here is the monument https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_(Baltimore)
The beat up Classic Head
I only do electrolysis on iron, but when the crusty 1833 LC turned up, I decided to give it a shot.
After toothpicking:
After boiling peroxide:
After 3 min in electrolysis:
I stopped after 5 minutes. I wanted to leave some of the verdigris on it. I really like the patina on a dug copper, so I dont enjoy the clean copper look, but I do love that its a coin I can ID and enjoy now.
Thanks for looking and enjoy the holiday weekend
Happy Hunting everyone.
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I'd absolutely do it again, but it would have to be the right copper and in rough shape.
