Frodov
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Ahhh.. a beautiful Autumn day, a day off, and no pressing items on the Honey-Do list! Of COURSE I went metal detecting! <grin> Well.. after a liesurely morning spent with my missus and brunch out at a local eatery. Eventually though I *did* get out to do some detecting.
I hopped in my little white truck (yes, small, white Ford Ranger), and headed to a nearby park where there are some volleyball courts (nets) set up and a couple of soccer fields laid out.. oh.. and a pretty fair sized tot lot nearby as well. I happened to drive by this very park on my way home from work yesterday, and it was packed! People everywhere, cars parked everywhere.. even in the grass where it was clearly posted "NO PARKING". Hmmmm clearly, some people just don't give a hoot.
Oh well, I guess there are people like that everywhere.. and this bunch was definitely an uncaring bunch as a whole I think, because the park was a mess this afternoon when I arrived. Litter, empty drink cans and plastic bottles everywhere.. food wrappers, foil, even some odd pieces of clothing, a single shoe, a shirt here, a pair of shorts there.. Did they leave in the dark? Leave in a hurry? <shrug> I picked up some of the trash as I detected, after lunch I saw that there were a couple of parks department guys there picking up after the messy crowd as well. They both waved a friendly and perhaps appreciable hello as I was detecting and picking up trash.
I didn't pick up JUST trash though mind you. I found a goodly amount of clad as well, along with some bling, a lot of pull tabs (of course) and a few odds and ends.. oh and one shotgun shell (base). Anyone know how old this bad boy might be?
It's a Winchester 12 gauge "NUBLACK" ? ? ? Any help? This park was, of course, farmland long before it became an oasis in the "burbs".
I found a pin on one of the soccer fields.. is Green White Red the colors of the Mexican flag? I would suspect it is.. there is a large migrant or "immigrant" population nearby this park.
The twin flag soccer pin was not the only bling I found today, I found a couple of small earrings too, not matches of course, that would be unusual, no these two are from different pairs. One has a small wooden bead remaining on it, and a small loop that probably connected something else to the earring at one time.<shrug>
...The other is silver! or at least the post portion is silver..it's stamped.
Along with the earrings and pull tabs (can jewelry) and LOTS of pennies.. I found GOLD! only it didn't and doesn't' LOOK like gold. In one of the volley ball courts, under the grass and a couple of inches down in the dirt, I found this chain and crucifix.
I thought it was a cheap pot metal or maybe copper when I first dug it up.. the chain was crusty and the cross was covered and filled with dirt and grass roots.. It wasn't until I got home later and took time to rinse it off that I found a couple of surprising Stamps! One on the back of the cross itself, it looks to have been double stamped..
14K ITALY ? ...and one stamp on one of the clasps of the chain.
The clasp has a 14K stamp too.. but that chain does NOT look like gold. I wonder if they were both gold plated?.. and the gold has worn off most of it. The stamp itself still looks shiny and "golden".. at least on the cross itself.
Hmmmm... Gold or not? Or was it EVER gold? I don't know, but it's still neat finding things like this. I found another key to add to my collection of keys and locks.. this one still has a big ugly plastic key chain..fob..tag..whatever on it. You can see it here with all the "other stuff" I found today.
Here's the picture of all my clad found today..
$6.55 in change.. not bad for a couple of hours of park clean up. <grin> Oh.. and 26 cents Canadian (not counted in my clad total)
Nothing against our neighbors to the Great White North, but the bank doesn't like me counting and rolling those coins along with US coinage. Something about it not be equivalent or something. <grin><shrug> That's ok, I'll just toss'em in with all my other Canadian coins and save them till I have a roll or two to take to the bank and THEN exchange them. Might be a while though, but that's ok, I'm in no hurry. I still get a kick out of finding the Canadian coins as well as the Home grown US coins. Got to love this hobby.
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
I hopped in my little white truck (yes, small, white Ford Ranger), and headed to a nearby park where there are some volleyball courts (nets) set up and a couple of soccer fields laid out.. oh.. and a pretty fair sized tot lot nearby as well. I happened to drive by this very park on my way home from work yesterday, and it was packed! People everywhere, cars parked everywhere.. even in the grass where it was clearly posted "NO PARKING". Hmmmm clearly, some people just don't give a hoot.
Oh well, I guess there are people like that everywhere.. and this bunch was definitely an uncaring bunch as a whole I think, because the park was a mess this afternoon when I arrived. Litter, empty drink cans and plastic bottles everywhere.. food wrappers, foil, even some odd pieces of clothing, a single shoe, a shirt here, a pair of shorts there.. Did they leave in the dark? Leave in a hurry? <shrug> I picked up some of the trash as I detected, after lunch I saw that there were a couple of parks department guys there picking up after the messy crowd as well. They both waved a friendly and perhaps appreciable hello as I was detecting and picking up trash.
I didn't pick up JUST trash though mind you. I found a goodly amount of clad as well, along with some bling, a lot of pull tabs (of course) and a few odds and ends.. oh and one shotgun shell (base). Anyone know how old this bad boy might be?
It's a Winchester 12 gauge "NUBLACK" ? ? ? Any help? This park was, of course, farmland long before it became an oasis in the "burbs".
I found a pin on one of the soccer fields.. is Green White Red the colors of the Mexican flag? I would suspect it is.. there is a large migrant or "immigrant" population nearby this park.
The twin flag soccer pin was not the only bling I found today, I found a couple of small earrings too, not matches of course, that would be unusual, no these two are from different pairs. One has a small wooden bead remaining on it, and a small loop that probably connected something else to the earring at one time.<shrug>
...The other is silver! or at least the post portion is silver..it's stamped.
Along with the earrings and pull tabs (can jewelry) and LOTS of pennies.. I found GOLD! only it didn't and doesn't' LOOK like gold. In one of the volley ball courts, under the grass and a couple of inches down in the dirt, I found this chain and crucifix.
I thought it was a cheap pot metal or maybe copper when I first dug it up.. the chain was crusty and the cross was covered and filled with dirt and grass roots.. It wasn't until I got home later and took time to rinse it off that I found a couple of surprising Stamps! One on the back of the cross itself, it looks to have been double stamped..
14K ITALY ? ...and one stamp on one of the clasps of the chain.
The clasp has a 14K stamp too.. but that chain does NOT look like gold. I wonder if they were both gold plated?.. and the gold has worn off most of it. The stamp itself still looks shiny and "golden".. at least on the cross itself.
Hmmmm... Gold or not? Or was it EVER gold? I don't know, but it's still neat finding things like this. I found another key to add to my collection of keys and locks.. this one still has a big ugly plastic key chain..fob..tag..whatever on it. You can see it here with all the "other stuff" I found today.
Here's the picture of all my clad found today..
$6.55 in change.. not bad for a couple of hours of park clean up. <grin> Oh.. and 26 cents Canadian (not counted in my clad total)
Nothing against our neighbors to the Great White North, but the bank doesn't like me counting and rolling those coins along with US coinage. Something about it not be equivalent or something. <grin><shrug> That's ok, I'll just toss'em in with all my other Canadian coins and save them till I have a roll or two to take to the bank and THEN exchange them. Might be a while though, but that's ok, I'm in no hurry. I still get a kick out of finding the Canadian coins as well as the Home grown US coins. Got to love this hobby.
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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. We find that stuff all the time around the beaches and in the lakes here. We call it our own "Black Hills Gold" Stamped right here in good 'ol Metro-Detroit Area 
. Though we do not have any hills around here except the affluent Bloomfield Hills 
. My area has never produced any gold items from the soccer fields or tot lots, for me. Seems, some other "seasoned citizen" is beating me to it. Nice finds though. Wish the soreness in my knees would go away for a few days, I have Osteo-Arthritis in both and it aint gettin' any better, heck tylenol doesn't work anymore for the pain........NGE
. In the Tool shed you'll see a post of the tools I use ......... NGE
