5 silvers, 3 tokens, 2 knives, arrowheads, etc...

[cheese]

Hello folks!

It's been busy around here and I haven't posted my finds for the past few hunts. I got out today and found some more keepers, so I grouped them along with some of my other recent finds and shot some pics. There are several, so if you like pics, this is your kinda thread. Unfortunately, I can't ever seem to remember to bring my camera with me on the hunts, or I'd show some pics of the beautiful farm I was at today. The oaks were huge, and there was an old trading route that ran through there before this area was even settled. It was a salt route from the midwest to the coast. Tons of iron in the ground along this area. All I managed was the reign guide and the tan pocketknife and some other junk.

Then I went to a grassy area behind a doctor's office in an old part of town and found a wheat, the bread token, razor handle, gaslight valve, spoon, and other crappe'.

The silver came from two private yards...the ring, 2 rosies, and the quarter from one, and the merc from another. A pile of wheats from both yards, and the milk token from the merc yard.

The Alabama tax token (Hi Nana!!) came from a recently cleared vacant lot in town, along with a spoon. The odd buckle (any ideas on what the design represents?), ford model T hubcap, and black pocket knife came from a cleared lot in a nearby town.

The decorative ring/pull and the odd flat piece with the ball on top came from a plantation main house yard, built in 1850.

Enjoy the pics!

 

[cheese]

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[cheese]

And I meant to add in the original post that the nice unbelievably perfect brown arrowhead pictured with the group is NOT real. A man gave it to me recently...tried to pass it off as real. I didn't argue, just took it and decided to toss it in the pic for an eye popper. Too bad it's a fake.

 

[Findone]

Great collection of finds.
Congratulation on the silver.
Leon

 

[Natman]

Aren't those older areas a blast to hunt? Nice bunch of finds, that's a lot of digging!

Nat

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice assortment, good finds for sure

 

[ohannos]

You must be happy hunting the areas you do, Serious treasures there. That brown arrowhead worked good as an eye popper. Do you mean by fake that it is stone and made recently?

 

[Evolution]

The first thing I was going to say was awesome arrowhead. It was definitely an eye popper. Nice finds.

 

[sonny60]

good looking relics my kinda hunt

 

[Rob66]

Wow ....nice hunting ground you have there.

 

[cheese]

Yeah, I really like relics when they're tokens, buckles, and knives, etc... I've had a passion for indian artifacts since I was a kid. It's funny how you don't really think you're finding much of anything, but then you lay it all out in one spot and look at everything from the past few hunts all together, and you realize you've been doing pretty decent. The silver seems to be pretty hard to come by around here though.

Thanks for the comments!

ohannos..yes, it is stone, but recently made. Possibly by a blood-related Native American, but recently.

It is a blast Nat. I've only recently started hunting some of the more modern homes from the 30s-50s hoping for some silver. I keep your posts in the back of my mind, recalling how well you've done in these types of yards. I really like barbers and indians, but rosies and wheats are nothing to sneeze at! Mercs are just nice everytime.

 

[Baggins]

Really great group of finds from your last hunts! Would be happy with any of those finds...
HH
Baggins

 

[Nana40]

Hi ya, Cheese!!

That's a GREAT bunch of keepers there, but crazy bout those tokens! Especially that dairy token!

Congrats on all those super finds! Nana

 

[texan connection]

Very Nice, Thanks for explaining the arrow head I almost FRAKEDOUT

 

[lonewolfe]

Excellent digs

HH

 

[ohannos]

I once watched a proffessional make an axe out of a piece of flint. Looked pretty easy but after trying several times myself found out that is really not the case. The guy sold them telling the buyers he made them himself and could get up to 1000$ for the nicest axes.
So even recent made tools can be worth a bit.

 

[cheese]

Yeah, it definitely takes technique to knap flint. I taught myself how to do it many years ago. I got good enough, but not as good as the guy that made that brown point. If you still want to learn it, thick plate glass is probably the easiest thing to learn with (be careful, don't get chips in your eyes or skin). It flakes like high quality flint, but doesn't have the stress cracks and inconsistencies in it like flint often does.

 

[ohannos]

Thats a bit of the fun though, getting the cracks away. Nearby is huhe flint reserves where they exported good flint "bars" in the ancient days so im not short of material. Finding any other native american relics?

 

[Hunter]

Excellent finds!