1923 Public Playground Finds

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Decided to hit an area of the city with an old elementary school surrounded by park woods and a playground that is almost 100 years old.

I’ve hit an 1800’s dot nearby in the park woods and pulled some old coppers and relics, met up with MetalHeadz to try our luck around the playground.

While Hiking/swinging to the target area I got a 17 on the Nox. I find a lot of rotted pocket knives, rarely anything worth posting, but this one was cool.


Next find was a Merc, wheat, a bunch of Memorials, then this big copper token popped out, silver quarter signal.



Here is some research on the token sent over by MetalHeadz.


Here is the handful.


The old watch is marked 95 and a silver mark is on the opposite corner, crusty, but pretty high grade silver.


The zippo lighter body has an interesting engraving and was obviously stolen by someone with the initials K.S.


Also found a complete locking latch mechanism, most likely from a treasure chest.


Good luck out there!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Great hunt, that token is a sweet one but I think the knife is a winner, identified as being from a world known one time event, can't beat that. Congratulations to both for all the saves, awesome job!!!

Thx! Love this hobby, 2 new words in my vocabulary, trylon and perisphere.

 

[wpsgta1000]

Cool on the pocket knife. I once found a 1939 Worlds Fair pocket knife in similar condition.

 

[wpsgta1000]

Forgot to add that mine was for the San Francisco 1939 worlds fair and was found in North Georgia.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the old finds!

 

[Whyme]

Hey I have that same Green River token! I found it on the floor of my Aunts house before they moved in. Found a bunch of wheat pennies and a few IHP's too. Very cool knife! Congrats!

 

[JerV3]

Nice stuff,

Agreed that worlds fair knife is a cool one. Yeah ive located the green wiskey token a half dozen times in the past 25 yrs.

Keep hunting you guys are doing well. We got some great history around us.

Jer

 

[Tpmetal]

It’s amazing how my typical 3” blob of rust I brush off and ID as an old pocket knife can give off such a nice tight silver dime type signal.

Right. I have always thought it is because of the brass end caps. sees that and just gives a small signal. Probably wrong though lol

 

[RelicMaster777]

Nice, love to hunt those old parks

 

[BLK HOLE]

Excellent hunt and a really nice group of saves, that token is real cool and that pocket knife is really neat, congrats

 

[Doc Arey]

sweet finds!

 

[Possum]

Nice Finds, Congrats!!! "D"