First cool find(s)!!!

[Jack Wilde]

Hello Friends!

I hit a permission for an hour or so today (my sisters new place) and came up with my first cool find. Very first plug I dug, sitting in the bottom of the whole was a small pocket knife. Written on the side are the words "Duluth School Police 1986". I did a little research when I got home and it sounds like these were given out as school awards, often to crossing guards. This is the first thing they I have found that wasn't nails, glad, or junk iron. I was pretty pumped up. Searched awhile longer and found the usual nails and what not, but I did walk away with my first dug wheat penny, and a small metal hook. The hook still had a bit of a price tag on it, but I'll take treasure where I can get it.

Question for all you veteran diggers out there. Would you try to clean the little knife up, or would you leave it as is?

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds and research, congrats!

 

[creskol]

That is a very cool knife! If it were mine, I would get some Evapo-Rust and put a small bowl in the microwave to make it good and warm, and soak the knife in it for a few hours. Then rinse it off and give it a good coat of wax.

 

[Noah_D]

Don't know about the knife, the ones I have found have been so corroded that they were pretty much one big chunk of rust. Congrats on the first wheatie!

 

[Jack Wilde]

That is a very cool knife! If it were mine, I would get some Evapo-Rust and put a small bowl in the microwave to make it good and warm, and soak the knife in it for a few hours. Then rinse it off and give it a good coat of wax.

Thank you so much!!

 

[Trezurehunter]

That is a nice little pocket knife.