1880s Mansion - Westchester County NY *MORE PICS ADDED

[incajoe]

1880's Mansion - Westchester County NY *MORE PICS ADDED

I was real excited about this hunt. I had just recently gotten permission to hunt this mansion in Westchester County NY that was built in 1884 and is on 17 acres. The grounds are absolutely beautiful but the mansion itself has fallen into disrepair and needs a complete remodeling. It's actually for sale right now and the asking price is only $11,000,000 in case any of you are needing something a little larger.
Anyway I hunted for about 4.5 hours and the finds were not quite as exciting as I had hoped but I did find some silver including a bent Standing Liberty Quarter and a base for a vase (I think) and a few mystery items that maybe some of you folks can ID for me. I didn't even begin to cover the whole 17 acres but I did enough exploratory testing (wandering aimlessly) to find out where the highest concentration of signals were. I'm not sure that I'll go back since it's about an hour drive one way for me and gas prices are getting superstupid lately.

Can anyone tell me what the cylinder thing is? I think it's brass and it says "open" and "close" on the end with a pat number. And the other thing that looks like an ancient coin I think is a lead seal but maybe someone can enlighten me on that one as well.

Lots of pictures......enjoy!

 

[I_Dig_NYC]

Re: 1880's Mansion - Westchester County NY *MORE PICS ADDED

Carefull there with the location of that mansion incajoe, if you ever want to go back there that is.
Keep that a secret my friend, things are getting tough down here in the big apple (NYC).
Parks are being removed from our permit system, and the trickle of silver dimes is running dry.
You don't want to trigger a stampede of desperate New York City treasure hunters into Westchester.
Let's keep Westchester our little secret okay? HeHeHe

 

[incajoe]

Re: 1880's Mansion - Westchester County NY *MORE PICS ADDED

What a site looks to be some really good hunting there. You have some really cool finds. I would be going back till not a single beep was heard.

Thanks for the research. Now I only wonder what the silver piece actually is? I think it must be a base from a vase or something.
I would definitely go back if the gas prices weren't so out of control. I drive a van that gets really poor mileage and a trip like this would cost me around $30 just in gas alone. Regular unleaded was $4.29 this morning!

 

[incajoe]

Re: 1880's Mansion - Westchester County NY *MORE PICS ADDED

Carefull there with the location of that mansion incajoe, if you ever want to go back there that is.
Keep that a secret my friend, things are getting tough down here in the big apple (NYC).
Parks are being removed from our permit system, and the trickle of silver dimes is running dry.
You don't want to trigger a stampede of desperate New York City treasure hunters into Westchester.
Let's keep Westchester our little secret okay? HeHeHe

OK, mums the word!