FortBedfordbob
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Friend's First Largie and weekend digs
It sure was a Great Weekend to be out diggin. Started off Saturday meeting up with DeArmitt and Mach 1 for a couple of hours. We didn't get much but Mach found a dropped musketball. We had to cut the hunt short as I had some stuff to do here at home. Late in the Afternoon DeArmitt and I went to site he got the Half-Cent at last weekend. We put about 2 1/2 hours in and I managed an 1864 Indianhead, seems to be a lot of them being dug lately. DeArmitt got a buckle and old zipper pull that had been repaired. They actually repaired things back then instead of everything being throw away. Then he got hit that read 12-41 on his E-Trac thinking it could be a coin he was surprised to find this thick heavily gilted on the back Scovill button, plain front.
Today I was invited by a friend to hunt an old stone house with a log house on the property about 20 miles from here. We found out after we were there that it has been hunted at least 50 times by another guy and his wife. There is more to be found. D.F. got his first Largie, an 1828 in decent shape. I found a Bishop Ashbury Meal from 1901 and this LLLL pin, pretty cool story about this WW1 era.
This is a "Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumberman" pin. In 1918 due to the shortage of wood for making military air crafts during WWI the government established a military organization made up of soldiers and loggers who were sent to the North west in order to locate and harvest Sitka Spruce trees. The spruce was used to make US, English, and French war planes. The pin depicts the letters "LLLL" a bi plane, Ship, some spruce trees and the words "US." On the bottom of the pin are the words "Authorized by the secretary of war." http://www.ohs.org/education/oregon...fm?doc_ID=34AAC7E2-F378-1019-FD50ED546769788E
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It sure was a Great Weekend to be out diggin. Started off Saturday meeting up with DeArmitt and Mach 1 for a couple of hours. We didn't get much but Mach found a dropped musketball. We had to cut the hunt short as I had some stuff to do here at home. Late in the Afternoon DeArmitt and I went to site he got the Half-Cent at last weekend. We put about 2 1/2 hours in and I managed an 1864 Indianhead, seems to be a lot of them being dug lately. DeArmitt got a buckle and old zipper pull that had been repaired. They actually repaired things back then instead of everything being throw away. Then he got hit that read 12-41 on his E-Trac thinking it could be a coin he was surprised to find this thick heavily gilted on the back Scovill button, plain front.
Today I was invited by a friend to hunt an old stone house with a log house on the property about 20 miles from here. We found out after we were there that it has been hunted at least 50 times by another guy and his wife. There is more to be found. D.F. got his first Largie, an 1828 in decent shape. I found a Bishop Ashbury Meal from 1901 and this LLLL pin, pretty cool story about this WW1 era.
This is a "Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumberman" pin. In 1918 due to the shortage of wood for making military air crafts during WWI the government established a military organization made up of soldiers and loggers who were sent to the North west in order to locate and harvest Sitka Spruce trees. The spruce was used to make US, English, and French war planes. The pin depicts the letters "LLLL" a bi plane, Ship, some spruce trees and the words "US." On the bottom of the pin are the words "Authorized by the secretary of war." http://www.ohs.org/education/oregon...fm?doc_ID=34AAC7E2-F378-1019-FD50ED546769788E
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