"School Patrol" badge and Good Luck charm found today!

[CoinandRelicMan]

The Good Luck charm was about eight inches down and on edge. The signal was very repeatable and

had the E-Track totally pegged out on the conductive scale. It was an obvious signal but the

search coil had to be swept slow and low or the response was not repeatable. The brass badge

says "School Patrol" and "Lieutenant" in middle and on the lower part it says "Illinois

Highways" on the E-Trac its signal read just above the nickel range, this item has to have been

down for some some years you would think due to all the rust. And just a tad bit deeper in the

same hole was the top part of a brass key also. It was a pretty good afternoon for detecting the

weather was great!

Hope you all enjoyed this post and have a great time detecting this spring!

 

[Roadrunner007]

Good finds!...what year is the quarter?... cant tell

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Good finds!...what year is the quarter?... cant tell

Thanks Roadrunner =) Its only a 1994 clad but I will take it.

 

[jeff of pa]

LOL on the Good Luck charm.
He must have been a little Tipsy when making it.

He not only couldn't spell WASHINGTON But he couldn't spell RAMSEY Either .

Nice finds !

 

[park pirate]

Nice finds..

 

[cambria09]

Hello CoinandRelicMaan. Nice finds, the patrol badge is cool. The good luck token is in great shape, all of those that I have found are toast and barely readable. Thanks for the view and good luck. C9

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds! Thanks for sharing...

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice finds.

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

LOL on the Good Luck charm.
He must have been a little Tipsy when making it.

He not only couldn't spell WASHINGTON But he couldn't spell RAMSEY Either .

Nice finds !

Hi Jeff Yeah the spelling was maybe some form of shecrect code ?? I suspected they put some coin in the machine and dialed up some custom text. Maybe now would be a good time to do some research on the "Good Luck" charm machines of the past !

Here is a web page with some info on the token stamper machine.
https://sites.google.com/site/malsprojects/home/metal-typer

Nice finds..

Hi park pirate , have you been able to get out to detect lately ?

Hello CoinandRelicMaan. Nice finds, the patrol badge is cool. The good luck token is in great shape, all of those that I have found are toast and barely readable. Thanks for the view and good luck. C9

Hi cambria Thanks my Mom was a school teacher she actually taught at one room schools a lots in the past. She said that the schools used to hire people to do patrol work, maybe this is the badge they handed such folks. Maybe some others will have knowledge of this here on the Treasure.net site and enlighten us

Nice finds! Thanks for sharing...

Hi vpnavy Hope you are doing well, your welcome !

Nice finds.

Hi Trezurehunter, thanks for the reply