farm finds

  1. Upstate 31M picker and connoisseur of fine findings.

    Hello everyone. My name is Tole 🤚🏼 Unsure if this thread still gets used but i would definitely like too collaborate/debate/discuss Some of the items i have acquired As well as other members' I grew up in upstate NY In a small town on gramps farm Gramps is 83, Grams is 79 They've been there...
  2. More Flat Buttons from the Early 1800s Farm

    Went back to the 1830s farm site for a couple hours this afternoon and found some more flat buttons. The largest one I found is a match to three others I have found there in the past. I also found another round ball. I lost one of the flat buttons I found so I guess I'll have to go back again...
  3. First Tombac Button and Nice 1849 Large Cent

    Went back to the old farm cent and found large cent number 6 for this site. I found it a few feet from where I found the others. I hit it with the shovel but luckily didn't damage it. It was sitting almost completely vertical about 6" down on the side of the hole I dug. I had gone over it a...
  4. Some type of tool?

    I was detecting an old 1870s farm site and found this strange looking tool. Not sure what it could have been used for. It looks like it has some paint on the end of it. It had a slight spoon shape in one side and is formed to a slight peak on the back. I have found all sorts of iron in the...
  5. Tips to approaching an old farm dump?

    Well when i was a kid behind my dads house was a corn field then woods. At the beginning of this wood line was an old dump and we would dig for bottles and just milk jugs and coke bottles and what nots, but now that I am older and realize there is value with some of the stuff we found I am not...
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