1905 EL Badge

[curbdiggercarl57]

Woke up at dawn and decided that I would find something, anything today. Yesterday was the first detecting day that I can ever recall driving around and not taking the detector out of the car's trunk once. The only excitement I had was trying to avoid the dozens of squirrels that suddenly decided to have a death wish, and run repeatedly in front of my vehicle. I don't know how many times that I had to slam on my brakes. Checked out a house that I had seen the day before that was being bulldozed as I drove by. Went I got to the site, it looked promising. House gone, ground leveled flat. Nice soft soil. Temp in the 60's. Porta-Potty close by. No squirrels. First signal was a pull tab, not posted. Then a couple of Wheaties, nothing special. Then a nice 1892-P Barber Dime popped out. Happy Carl. Still no squirrels. Good sign. Then dug a Bull Durham mini advertisement piece. Then a 1924-d Merc. After a few more Wheats, I dug a as yet unidentified badge, marked "E. L. Seventh International convention, July 5-9, 1905. Has a religious phrase, "Look up, Lift up, All For Christ" in the center. What confuses me is that at the bottom, it shows a pick, shovel, and a gold pan. Googled it, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. The best surprise was when I got home, I realized that I had two coins that I needed to fill in some gaps in the old Whitman Coin folders, the 1924-D, and a Wheatie, a 1937-S. They only minted something like, say 700 Billion of them, but for some reason, could never dig one up. I'm now down to 10 missing Wheaties from the 1909-1940 folder. Not a fantastic day, but fullfillng none the less. Thanks for looking, and no squirrels were harmed in the process.

 

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[nhbenz]

Nice finds! I believe the EL stands for the Epworth League, a Methodist group which had a convention there in Denver in 1905.

 

[dex378]

nice digs!

 

[wolfdog]

Looks to me like you had a great day. Very nice finds .Nice to find something to help fill in the coin books to. Congrats.

 

[seger98]

Nice stuff!!

 

[Mackaydon]

I think NH nailed it. Here's a source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=yL...&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

Their motto is: "Look up, lift up, all for Christ and the Church."

"The Epworth League was an organization of the young people of the Methodist Episcopal church, formed in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, by the combination of five young people's organizations then existing. The purpose of the league was the promotion of intelligent and vital piety among the young people of the church." Source: Wiki

 

[Packrat]

nice finds

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Great work NHbenz, you pinpointed it!
THE EPWORTH LEAGUE
1. HISTORY: The Epworth League was organized at Cleveland, O.,
May 15, 1889, by the combination of five young people's organizations
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The first meeting of the Board of Control was held in Chicago in February,
1890. The publication of the Epworth Herald was authorized by
the Book Committee in February, 1890. The League was officially recognized
by the General Conference of 1892. The First International
Epworth League Convention was held in Cleveland, O., in 1893. These
conventions were held biennially until the Denver Convention, in 1905,
since which they have been made quadrennial. They have occurred in
Cleveland, Chattanooga, Toronto, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Detroit,
Denver, and Seattle.

The dates through me off until I reread the article, and that the conventions were held every two years.
This site is like some crazy forensics tv show, amazing how fast you people are at deducing. Good stuff!

 

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[49er]

Nice finds... Be careful of the squirrels they are tricky. Most of all don't go near the Denver Zoo they have monster size ones hanging out looking for folks swinging a metal detector.

 

[kdismuke1]

Congrats.

 

[DD-777]

Nice digs Curb! Glad you got out today - definitely better than havin' a "honey-do" list type of day...

 

[conlaodh]

Nice finds curbdiggercarl57
It seems I have the same hopless affliction as I drive around aimlessly in my car looking for scraped of lots with no fences so I can appease the metal detecting Gods that has taken hold of me ,body and soul.

 

[Detectingfreak]

sounds like you had a great day as well! Congratulations!

 

[rmptr]

 

[BuckleBoy]

Excellent Finds!

Glad to see you've now added the Omnipresent Bull Durham tobacco watch fob to your Inventory of Greatness.




Cheers,


Buck

 

[TN-Joe]

Super finds. Love that Bull Durham tobacco watch fob .
Joe

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice finds there CDC