Charm Bracelet, Texas Giant Ring, IHP, and GOLD!

[Steve in PA]

Sunday I braved the cold and hunted around an old farmhouse at one of my permissions. I had previously found an old house site on this farm, but had never hunted around the standing house, and I was hoping to find a couple silver coins. I didn't find much in the way of coins, just two wheaties and an IHP. But I got a couple interesting items, the first being this charm bracelet:



The next cool thing I found is this 10K gold piece with a March 11, 1916 patent date. I'm not sure what purpose it served. It weighs in at 5.7 grams. Since I rarely find gold, I was happy with this.



I also found part of a J. G. Tarver, Texas Giant ring. Mr. Tarver was 8' 6" tall and weighed 460 pounds. Unfortunately the ring was broken.


Here is some more info on Mr. Tarver One Dusty Track: Jim Tarver, Texas Giant

Just one older coin, a 1900 IHP


Here is everything I pocketed

 

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[GB1]

nice finds

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Very cool finds Steve
Love that old charm bracelet !
Gary

 

[creskol]

Nice batch of goodies indeed! Gotta love that ring and history! Very cool!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Nice hunt Steve. Cool history with that ring. I wonder if the gold piece came off of a very nice old purse. Surprised that you did not find more.coins. Think it was hunted before? Much modern trash to work through? Congrats!

 

[creskol]

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I think your gold piece may be off of a belt buckle similar to this one:

 

[orange_sweetheart]

VERY nice, interesting finds -- Congrats!!

 

[Steve in PA]

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I think your gold piece may be off of a belt buckle similar to this one:

Thanks Creskol. No doubt that is what it came from. Now I need to find the rest of it!!

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice hunt Steve. Cool history with that ring. I wonder if the gold piece came off of a very nice old purse. Surprised that you did not find more.coins. Think it was hunted before? Much modern trash to work through? Congrats!

Thad, yeah I was surprised that there weren't more coins. There was a lot of modern (and older) trash. I also didn't cover some areas that had snow, plus I had two little boys following me around continually asking questions. This is a different farm than the one I took you to.

 

[dirtlooter]

very very cool finds and hopefully you can go back and find the rest of that buckle.

 

[Reanm8er]

Very cool Steve, Congrats!

I've often wondered what ever happened to all those charm bracelets women wore back in the mid sixties. This one looks generic with a lot of non personalized charms. I can remember some that had charms for their kids, husbands mothers etc. Also luxury autos, houses and about anything you might imagine. I've seen them double linked and so many charms they must have weighed nearly a pound. I bought a charm at the flea market on time for 10 cents. It was a gold ingot with 14K cast into the top. I paid the young lady and she said "I guess you know that's not gold". I said "Sure it is". She said "It's not marked" I said right here on the top in big letters!

Best wishes and good luck!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Super relic hunt, congratulations!

 

[xr7ator]

Out looking for a silver or two and finding gold makes for a great hunt. Congratulations!

 

[A2coins]

Wowza great hunt Well done glad you did so well Great post

 

[Whyme]

Very nice finds! Congrats!

 

[BLK HOLE]

Congrats on a productive hunt!

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Awesome Finds!!!

Thats wild you found something related to "Big Tex" out there!

 

[ARC]

Man...

Gotta love the color old buried stuff can take on...

That charm bracelet is a textbook example of it.

Wikipedia should have a page on "metal detecting finds"... and they should use THAT picture as the textbook picture.

Sheesh that picture should be on the cover of a metal detecting book or something ... heh

That color... wheeew... uniform... consistent... creamy and thick... even tone.

I call it "sun baked mustard" color.

:P ~



Well done Steve.

 

[civilman1]

Never know what's going to come out of the ground Steve

 

[Steve in PA]

Awesome Finds!!!

Thats wild you found something related to "Big Tex" out there!

I've been to the State Fair several times when I lived in Dallas. Are you saying Big Tex was modeled after J. G. Tarver?
The circus must have came through Washington, PA for this ring to end up where I found it