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My friend and I detected a rather large ghost town a few hours away. It gets detected regularly by lots of people, but it's pretty big and also covered with sagebrush making it difficult to swing. It's also completely covered with old, rusty cans making it beyond difficult to detect. The Deus2 had its job cut out for it and performed admirably for the conditions.
While I didn't get any coins, my friend popped an 1858-s dime and a 1911 wheat.
I did find some interesting items however.
The toy clay pipe is something I've never heard of, pretty cute!
The square sash buckle was a welcome find in such good condition. The heel traction cleat is one I haven't seen before either.
An unfired .44 Russian round is a first for me. The .45 cal shell I haven't identified yet.
I checked carefully around where the coin purse was found, but no coins.

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The rectangular piece at the bottom of the pic is a letter "N" printing press type.
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A piece of something silver plated from Stuttgart 1881
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That is one tiny little pipe!
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My friend and I detected a rather large ghost town a few hours away. It gets detected regularly by lots of people, but it's pretty big and also covered with sagebrush making it difficult to swing. It's also completely covered with old, rusty cans making it beyond difficult to detect. The Deus2 had its job cut out for it and performed admirably for the conditions.
While I didn't get any coins, my friend popped an 1858-s dime and a 1911 wheat.
I did find some interesting items however.
The toy clay pipe is something I've never heard of, pretty cute!
The square sash buckle was a welcome find in such good condition. The heel traction cleat is one I haven't seen before either.
An unfired .44 Russian round is a first for me. The .45 cal shell I haven't identified yet.
I checked carefully around where the coin purse was found, but no coins.

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The rectangular piece at the bottom of the pic is a letter "N" printing press type.
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A piece of something silver plated from Stuttgart 1881
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That is one tiny little pipe!
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It may have been the end of an opium pipe. Many opium pipes had very small ends.
Like this one here.
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Cool little find.
 
My friend and I detected a rather large ghost town a few hours away. It gets detected regularly by lots of people, but it's pretty big and also covered with sagebrush making it difficult to swing. It's also completely covered with old, rusty cans making it beyond difficult to detect. The Deus2 had its job cut out for it and performed admirably for the conditions.
While I didn't get any coins, my friend popped an 1858-s dime and a 1911 wheat.
I did find some interesting items however.
The toy clay pipe is something I've never heard of, pretty cute!
The square sash buckle was a welcome find in such good condition. The heel traction cleat is one I haven't seen before either.
An unfired .44 Russian round is a first for me. The .45 cal shell I haven't identified yet.
I checked carefully around where the coin purse was found, but no coins.

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The rectangular piece at the bottom of the pic is a letter "N" printing press type.
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A piece of something silver plated from Stuttgart 1881
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That is one tiny little pipe!
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It was a very fun day.
 
In 1881, Stuttgart was the host of the Württemberg State Trade Exhibition, a major industrial event held under King Charles (Karl); maybe that's the connection.
(Thanks AI)
Don in SoCal.
 
Cool finds. Thanks for posting.
 
A few ??
Are those glass beads with the buttons?

Powder flask?

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Yeah, interesting looking glass beads at that! The little blue bead is one I have found on indian sites before, but the other two are new to me. They're rather homemade looking.
The piece shaped like a powder flask looks to be some form of furniture decoration I think. It's very thin and has a very deliberate edge around its perimeter.
 
Goldfield this time, right?
 
Great finds - congrats !
 
You did good :)
 
A few ??
Are those glass beads with the buttons?

Powder flask?

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After looking at this a little more, I do believe you are correct: powder flask!
(Should have never doubted you Pep!)
I gave it a few minutes in the 'lectro bath and straightened it up a bit.
 

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You had a really good day!
 
My friend and I detected a rather large ghost town a few hours away. It gets detected regularly by lots of people, but it's pretty big and also covered with sagebrush making it difficult to swing. It's also completely covered with old, rusty cans making it beyond difficult to detect. The Deus2 had its job cut out for it and performed admirably for the conditions.
While I didn't get any coins, my friend popped an 1858-s dime and a 1911 wheat.
I did find some interesting items however.
The toy clay pipe is something I've never heard of, pretty cute!
The square sash buckle was a welcome find in such good condition. The heel traction cleat is one I haven't seen before either.
An unfired .44 Russian round is a first for me. The .45 cal shell I haven't identified yet.
I checked carefully around where the coin purse was found, but no coins.

View attachment 2229111
The rectangular piece at the bottom of the pic is a letter "N" printing press type.
View attachment 2229112
View attachment 2229113

A piece of something silver plated from Stuttgart 1881
View attachment 2229114

That is one tiny little pipe!
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The .44 Russian was a modification of the S&W Model 3 for the European market. It would be interesting to know how it ended up there. Nice bunch of relics!
 

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