McCDig
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- Baltimore, Maryland
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- Fisher F75
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I intended to detect today after getting my truck serviced. On the way to the garage I received a text from John asking if I was going detecting today.
We agreed to meet at Druid Hill Park in Baltimore City.
I made it to the park by 10:45AM and we hunted there for about an hour. I had suggested we try another spot neither of us had detected before, outside the immediate confines of the park. We gave it a good try but nothing "old" was found. We persisted and before long I got a "90" VDI shallow target that I had some trouble locating cleanly, so after not finding my target in the first hole, I dug an adjacent hole. What I found there had me calling over to John. The piece is Sterling with a dollar symbol at one end and a bezelled 1891O Morgan dollar at the other end.
Once home it was discovered through examination of the piece and an on-line search that this is a money clip. The clip came out of the ground fully unfolded.
The following pic shows its shape restored.
Here is an example from an Internet source:
This is a Jennings Company piece like mine; the Jennings Company was established in Bridgeport, CT in 1890.
I do not know the age of the clip I dug today.
This is just another example of how we are always surprised by the targets we dig.
That find gave us a momentary push to continue there but we soon decided to head across town to two adjacent parks to detect for the balance of the day.
I should add here that John did well to this point with some wheats, a V-nickel and an IHC. His find continued to grow as the afternoon wore on.
At one point we were detecting near a soccer field and I had just cut a plug for a faint high-tone and noticed the soccer team had begun their jog around the field and would reach me before the extraction, so I just walked away for a bit 'til they passed and then found this Sterling 4-way Cross medal.
About fifteen minutes before I dug this beauty, John pulled a silver Washington quarter from the field and some wheats.
I finished detecting at 5:30 PM and we headed over to the vehicles to look at the day's finds. Here are a couple of other keepers that I recovered today along with over $4.50 in clad.
Any thoughts on that metal piece that's hand-stamped "4024" are welcome.
Thanks for check out the pics! HH and GL!
We agreed to meet at Druid Hill Park in Baltimore City.
I made it to the park by 10:45AM and we hunted there for about an hour. I had suggested we try another spot neither of us had detected before, outside the immediate confines of the park. We gave it a good try but nothing "old" was found. We persisted and before long I got a "90" VDI shallow target that I had some trouble locating cleanly, so after not finding my target in the first hole, I dug an adjacent hole. What I found there had me calling over to John. The piece is Sterling with a dollar symbol at one end and a bezelled 1891O Morgan dollar at the other end.
Once home it was discovered through examination of the piece and an on-line search that this is a money clip. The clip came out of the ground fully unfolded.
The following pic shows its shape restored.
Here is an example from an Internet source:
This is a Jennings Company piece like mine; the Jennings Company was established in Bridgeport, CT in 1890.
I do not know the age of the clip I dug today.
This is just another example of how we are always surprised by the targets we dig.
That find gave us a momentary push to continue there but we soon decided to head across town to two adjacent parks to detect for the balance of the day.
I should add here that John did well to this point with some wheats, a V-nickel and an IHC. His find continued to grow as the afternoon wore on.
At one point we were detecting near a soccer field and I had just cut a plug for a faint high-tone and noticed the soccer team had begun their jog around the field and would reach me before the extraction, so I just walked away for a bit 'til they passed and then found this Sterling 4-way Cross medal.
About fifteen minutes before I dug this beauty, John pulled a silver Washington quarter from the field and some wheats.
I finished detecting at 5:30 PM and we headed over to the vehicles to look at the day's finds. Here are a couple of other keepers that I recovered today along with over $4.50 in clad.
Any thoughts on that metal piece that's hand-stamped "4024" are welcome.
Thanks for check out the pics! HH and GL!
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