Coal Camp Find

[The Real Swift]

I was working at an old coal camp in Perry county, KY. Found this old miner's check tag. Once his car was loaded, the miner placed his "check" on it -- a small brass check with his number -- which allowed the checkweighman at the tipple to credit him with the tonnage loaded for the day.


The camp was from the First Creek Coal Company 1916-1918

 

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[bearbqd]

That's pretty cool. Good find

 

[looking4largecent]

My friend and I have been hunting an old coal camp in Iowa for years and weve found dozens of those tags. They give off a great quarter signal. HH

 

[hoochyhunter]

I took my 6 year old son out a couple of weeks ago. The first hit we got, I let him dig the hole and he pulled one of those tags out of the ground. I have an aunt who actually teaches mining classes and she is going to look up who the tag belonged to. Knowing the history behind it will be pretty interesting.

 

[hamiddetecting]

 

[The Real Swift]

I took my 6 year old son out a couple of weeks ago. The first hit we got, I let him dig the hole and he pulled one of those tags out of the ground. I have an aunt who actually teaches mining classes and she is going to look up who the tag belonged to. Knowing the history behind it will be pretty interesting.

Where you from?

 

[hdmech71]

I have found a couple old coal tokens around my area. Friend of coal and the history. Nice find!

 

[SilverPirate]

Sweet find!

 

[ridger12]

I found quite a few of those tags many years ago when I first started detecting. They seemed to be everywhere around here at one time but in the last few years I haven't found a single one. They where one of the few common finds that I really liked to find and I miss finding them.

 

[7creeks]

sweet find