An Unusual Old Coin and a Face Full of Buckles!

[West Jersey Detecting]

I returned to the presumed CW campsite that my friends and I have been detecting since March. The finds are getting sparse in the field, so I turned to the woods nearby. There are some cellar holes that are inaccessible this time of year, but I stuck to the path and worked slowly between the trash signals. My first find of the day was the colonial era buckle in a dried creek bed, which is one of only a few colonial era finds at the site. (I have found some early flat buttons on previous outings.) About 10 feet away I got a decent signal but it was masked by iron. Out came not one, but two "D" buckles.

A little while longer I dug what I thought was a dime sized piece of can slaw, but I noticed the clover leaf shape and an inscription on each side that I cannot make out. It appears to be tin. This is the second piece like it found at the site.

Nearby was an old suspender buckle, the button/snap(?) and the unusual handle(?) of some type.

After a more than month long coin drought, I finally got a decent coin sounding signal, which was a mid range signal. I was thinking penny and hoping for an Indian Head since it was more than 5 inches deep. At first I was disappointed, thinking I had dug a brass washer, but upon closer inspection I realized I had dug a cast Chinese coin! This is also the second one found at the site, the first being found by my friend Jason a few weeks back. From what I found online it appears to be 18th century, but if there are any experts out there, please help!

My battery was dying on the V3 at this point so I headed back to the car. While crossiing the dry creek bed, I decided to give it one more search and out came the pewter soup spoon!

Many unusual finds, and here is today's "Face Full of Buckles!"

 

[bugbitingme]

Great finds. Those clovers are interesting and that handle is really fancy, wonder what it screwed onto. The buckle face is cool. Gotta be a lot more good finds around there.

 

[Swingit]

Nice Early Shoe Buckle
The Handle Thing Is The Handle For An Old Razor
HH!!

 

[ok oil]

nice finds the handle looks like a razer handle

 

[ivan salis]

it a old screw down type "razor" handle ---there was a base that fit on the screw type shaft then a disposible dual sided razor blade then a top that the handle screwed into -- to change the blade you took it apart and put a fresh blade in and put it back together again.

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice recovery's MR TUFF

 

[Mackaydon]

Your razor handle is similar to one on this Every Ready razor of 1912:
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/tom_violence_2006/ever-ready.jpg
Don.......

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

The razor is similar to this Every Ready razor of 1912:
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/tom_violence_2006/ever-ready.jpg
Don.......

Thanks for the ID!!

 

[FortBedfordbob]

Good Stuff, The Buckle Face is neat

 

[Sniffy]

Love the shoe buckle! Too bad it has no innards. I hope you get a solid ID on the chinese coin.

 

[mainer]

Great digs!

 

[cntrydncr1]

cool finds Neil. congrats

 

[Bushido Dude]

Nice finds! The handle is an old razor....I have found 2 with the same pattern as yours.

 

[TommNJ]

Nice Finds ! Looks like a good area for hunting.

TommNJ

 

[bigealive]

Nice Asian Coin... found one 2 or 3 years ago. Pretty neat.

 

[DaleGM]

sweet relics and old Chinese coins, Ive also found a handle similar to that one sweet finds.......

 

[umrgolf]

Hey man, cool colonial buckle... Josh (Sentinel) and I were looking at the peculiar clover you dug and think it's possible that its a crudely made 2nd corps, corps badge.. Again we THINK, obviously not sure because of the damage to the piece but very possible. Jeff

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Still looking for my first colonial buckle. I love seeing them posted


VPR

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Hey man, cool colonial buckle... Josh (Sentinel) and I were looking at the peculiar clover you dug and think it's possible that its a crudely made 2nd corps, corps badge.. Again we THINK, obviously not sure because of the damage to the piece but very possible. Jeff

Interesting theory...it goes with all of the finds we have been finding at the field. My friend Jason also found a similar one (I have not seen it yet). There are a few things that would make me doubt it is a corps badge

The Size: It is only the size of a dime
The inscriptions: Although illegible, it is on both sides. I would think that a badge worn by a soldier would only be engraved on one side.

Thanks for the possible ID!!

 

[fathead]

Could the handle be to a magnifying glass? My Grandpa had a similar one.


-FH