Mayo South Elgin
Sr. Member
Lowbatts and me went to the tree.
In search of the elusive wheatie we be...
I popped out a couple then Lowbatts did too
OK forget the rhymes - too much work for this feeble brain.
Anyways we went to the spot we've been about 3 or 4 times to see if we could squeeze out a few more goodies.
Sure enough we each got some wheaties. I got excited (briefly) when I saw the 1909 but unfortunately it had no S VDB. I also got a very large smashed bullet, and a really old cufflink that at first I thought was a button. In the same hole I found a little gold plated something or other. When I got the finds home and cleaned them up, it turned out the gold plated thing is the back to the cufflink. There's a little tab on the cufflink that fits into a slot on the back piece. I love getting old stuff like this way more than a pocket spill with 20 coins from the 70's through the 90's.
Tim found a nice nickel on the outskirts of the wheatie zone. Not to be outdone by him, about a half hour later I managed to pop one out too although his is older than mine! A little after that I was saying something about we hadn't pulled any silver out of there yet... and then chaching! I got the '47D Rosey.
After a brief repast at Che Wendy, we hit another section and found some brass objects like door latch parts, Tim got some other cool stuff related to Elgin's history, and I'm not sure if he was using his detector for this but he found an intact working bicycle in a wooded area, which I also walked up to just moments before the owner of it came by and said "Did you find my bicycle?" I said something like, yeah it was kind of hard to miss. I think he said he left it there last night. Maybe he didn't want a B U I - I don't know. Something wasn't right with the picture.
In another spot someone must have tossed a handful of pennies into the woods because I was finding mem cents on the surface under the leaves. After about 7 of them I had enough and left the area.
It was another great day to be digging!
In search of the elusive wheatie we be...
I popped out a couple then Lowbatts did too
OK forget the rhymes - too much work for this feeble brain.
Anyways we went to the spot we've been about 3 or 4 times to see if we could squeeze out a few more goodies.
Sure enough we each got some wheaties. I got excited (briefly) when I saw the 1909 but unfortunately it had no S VDB. I also got a very large smashed bullet, and a really old cufflink that at first I thought was a button. In the same hole I found a little gold plated something or other. When I got the finds home and cleaned them up, it turned out the gold plated thing is the back to the cufflink. There's a little tab on the cufflink that fits into a slot on the back piece. I love getting old stuff like this way more than a pocket spill with 20 coins from the 70's through the 90's.
Tim found a nice nickel on the outskirts of the wheatie zone. Not to be outdone by him, about a half hour later I managed to pop one out too although his is older than mine! A little after that I was saying something about we hadn't pulled any silver out of there yet... and then chaching! I got the '47D Rosey.
After a brief repast at Che Wendy, we hit another section and found some brass objects like door latch parts, Tim got some other cool stuff related to Elgin's history, and I'm not sure if he was using his detector for this but he found an intact working bicycle in a wooded area, which I also walked up to just moments before the owner of it came by and said "Did you find my bicycle?" I said something like, yeah it was kind of hard to miss. I think he said he left it there last night. Maybe he didn't want a B U I - I don't know. Something wasn't right with the picture.
In another spot someone must have tossed a handful of pennies into the woods because I was finding mem cents on the surface under the leaves. After about 7 of them I had enough and left the area.
It was another great day to be digging!
