Diggin Through old Finds and found some surprises......

[Corinth1812]

Since global warming has southern illinois in a deep freeze, and unable to do any detecting, i decided to go through some of my finds from a few years ago just to see what all i had found and to my surprise i had some pretty nice keepers. When i first started metal detecting 4 years ago i was only interested in coins, and i viewed pretty much everything else as junk, and i threw all the other stuff in a box. Well over the last couple of days ive been going through it and just to see what i had actually found. In the last couple of years i have been regarding other items based in what they were and found that not all non-coin items are junk and that some of them are actually better than coins..Heres some of what i found. The indian head penny i thought was an 1877, (still not sure it isnt) it appears to be an 1870 that has been scuffed and looks like an 1877, never mind the giant hole in the middle. The little thingy with the pat date of 1868 it the tip of a tape measure. The spoon i thought was silver plate, but its not its sterling and pretty old to boot. The St.Christopher charms are .925 silver. Any one sees anything that they know what it is please feel free to jump in.

 

[phantomfinder]

Very cool finds, the photos came out great WTG

 

[Kanyontreasures]

the wings look like a part of a fairy....jk i think that they are off a old car emblem maybe see the resemblance lol

 

[pepperj]

Very nice finds, love the lock. The holed copper is cool!

 

[DirtyMike]

The 2 things (one is broke) far left, top row are tent rope adjusters. Cool finds. We find then in civil war camps.

 

[DirtyMike]

The last picture is some sort of watch fob.

 

[SkyPirate]

Cool stuff!

 

[tuatara]

A junk? So many interesting things here. A fob watch winder (?), a fob watch lid(?) or a compact and a fob. I like an old lock very much and silver medals. Cannot make out marks on your spoon. Is it possible to clean those things better?

 

[Goes4ever]

junk looks like some super nice finds there! and I think that is an 1877, sad it is in that shape

 

[september]

Very cool!!

 

[Yard Digger]

Looks like good junk to me! WTG

 

[Relic Ron]

Very nice finds, I think I see a 1904 Dr. Pepper watch fob in there, check out ask Mark Parker.


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