Dog License Bonanza- 11 Dog Licenses from 1950!

[VTColonialDigger]

I went detecting at an 1800's house today with my dad and here are the finds.



We didn't find a lot that was very old, but we some pretty interesting things. In the front of the barn, my dad found the modern penny and the thing we think might be some sort of sash clip as it has the buckle design on the front of it. I found the harmonica right in front of the house. We decided to move around behind the barn and in a 20' X 20' area we found the two decorative pieces we believe are from old lamps, a lot of junk, and the 11 dog licences from the same town and all from 1950. My dad found license #180 and I found 159, 160, 161, 168, 177, 193, 195, 196, and 199. All of these were found at 6 inches deep or less. I was very surprised that we found so many and all from the same year. The property owner told us that there had been an old building where we found all the dog licenses so I think what might possibly have happened was that someone had all the tags in a jar or can and when the building was demolished, the can was dumped and the licenses were spilled. Although the licences are not very old, it was still interesting/weird to find so many from the same year. Maybe next time I'll find something a little older!

 

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[grasshopper]

That's a lot of dog tags!

Nice hunt!

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, nice hunt with some nice finds. I love the dog tags you found. Congrats

 

[park pirate]

Wow awesome congrats...

 

[Hawks88]

Nice variety of finds. I like the harmonica.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Maybe the owners raised dogs. Any way you look at it, that is a lot of tags, and they are very nice finds.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice finds, thank you for sharing!

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Dog kennel perhaps?

 

[islamoradamark]

Either they had alot of dogs or they were eating real good nice finds

 

[against the wind]

Dog tags were issued by the state / city department of health or agriculture after a dog tax was paid. Since dogs were rarely on a leash in a farm environment, dogs would be allowed to run through the fields. It would be wiser to keep the tags in a drawer / jar for safekeeping. Having numerous dogs on a working farm to help with sheep herding / rodent control was a common practice.
Congrats on some cool finds.

 

[Plumbata]

Once when cleaning out an old building on the property I found a jar full of consecutive unused 1963 dog tags from the nearby town, probably close to 100 of them. Not sure what was going on, but I presume the unused ones were obtained free/cheap with the idea of using them to tag the sheep which were once raised there.

 

[b3y0nd3r]

HOT DOG! WHAT A BUNCH OF GREAT FINDS DOG GONE IT YOU DOG!!!

 

[rick67]

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[the_mad_cladder]

those are cool tags. People collect them. I’ve got 3 including a 1957. They display well.