Awesome Pair Of Sterling Paratrooper Jump Wings

[Sooper Dave]

I've been able to get out a few times over the last two weeks. The temperature here has been awesome for December and has allowed me to get out and dig a few more keepers for the year. I got in two good hunts at an old school spot where the school is long gone and is now just an empty lot. I was able to get permission to hunt and got the normal response of "it's been gone over a few times by some guys" and I replied the same with "maybe they left me a few things" and went on down to hunt. Well after two hunts about 2 hours each I ended up with 9 silver coins, 7 Buffalos, a nice 1882 Indian and the normal handful of Wheaties. I also found a cool Chicago World's Fair token from the 30's and one of my favorite finds this year, I dug right at dark last night, is the sterling Paratrooper Jump Wings. I'm very happy to have dug these. I imagine they are WWII era according to some of the other finds like the 2 War Nickels, but I'm not for sure. Another cool find I made from an old house site was the 1943 2 Francs from the Vichy Regime of France during WWII. It says "WORK-FAMILY-FATHERLAND" It never gets old digging and researching the little pieces of history we find. I included another group of finds from another old school site that I've had good luck with and pulled a few more keepers from there last week as well. I hope this spring like weather holds out a little while longer for us all. Good luck & Happy Hunting! David

 

[K1DDO1979]

Awesome stuff. The wings are cool! [emoji106]

 

[Reelsnrods]

To bad that spot is all hunted out...great job��

 

[Subterranean]

Great hunt, congratulations. Silver wings are on my bucket list too. Sub

 

[Loco-Digger]

Awesome scores. You sure did great for pounded site, or else they did poorly. You pulled 2 to 3 months worth of keepers in 2 short hunts. You DA MAN...

 

[gunsil]

Finds are cool, but that is one pretty cat!!

 

[thrifty76now]

Tremendous haul by you as usual.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

The Silver pin is very cool, don't recall another posted.
Anything worth seeing on the back side ? add a pic.

 

[Sooper Dave]

Awesome stuff. The wings are cool! [emoji106]

Thanks! I think they are the coolest thing I've dug all year.

 

[Sooper Dave]

Great hunt, congratulations. Silver wings are on my bucket list too. Sub

Thanks Sub! I hope you dig a pair of wings soon!

 

[Sooper Dave]

Awesome scores. You sure did great for pounded site, or else they did poorly. You pulled 2 to 3 months worth of keepers in 2 short hunts. You DA MAN...

Thanks Loco! I don't know how pounded this area was, but I wasn't the first guy on it. Which is like 99% of the places I hunt.

 

[Sooper Dave]

Finds are cool, but that is one pretty cat!!

Yeah that was a friendly cat. Walked by me the whole time I hunted. I've been telling everyone it's my new pinpointer... [emoji74]

 

[Sooper Dave]

Tremendous haul by you as usual.

Thanks Thrifty!

 

[Sooper Dave]

The Silver pin is very cool, don't recall another posted.
Anything worth seeing on the back side ? add a pic.

Thanks Rick. The only thing on the back is sterling. I was hoping for a way to age them.

 

[gollum]

I may be mistaken, but I don't believe basic jump wing design has changed since we started jumping out of airplanes in the 1940s. Eventually, they added Senior Parachutist and Master Parachutist Wings. I had a set of those punched into my chest by some Canadian General that officiated over my jump school graduation class (they call them Blood Wings).

Merry Christmas - Mike

 

[UnderMiner]

Really tearing it up out there!

 

[Nepa-Will]

Incredible hunt!

 

[Sooper Dave]

Incredible hunt!

Thanks Will!

 

[Mudslide]

Excellent job cleaning up after those other guys! Great finds!

 

[kingskid1611]

Nice set of wings. Nice collection of silver. Wonderful hunt, Congrats!