Good finds near my back door

Thekingd93

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Detecting for an hour before work and found 2 Indian heads 1906 & 1890. Also a copper tag of some sort.
Turns out Star Of The East was a steamboat ferry that operated here in my hometown on the Kennebec River in the 1800's. It went back and fourth to Boston a few times a week.The large copper piece is a luggage tag from that ferry. I'll post the link that connects the dots. https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/19325
 

Detecting for an hour before work and found 2 Indian heads 1906 & 1890. Also a copper tag of some sort.
great finds, love old tags and IHPs, well done
 

Detecting for an hour before work and found 2 Indian heads 1906 & 1890. Also a copper tag of some sort.
Good one the Indian Head Cent. I found one here in Oz yrs ago but alas our highly mineralised ground on the goldfields is very unkind to coins and relics. It wasn't in great shape. Funnily I misplaced it and have been looking for it for yrs. It was only a few days ago whilst packing to move I found it at the bottom of an old box of stuff still in its holder. Cool looking little coins those 👍
 

Cool tag! Congrats!
 

Nice going and keep digging. Thanks for sharing with us
 

Congrats on the pair of IH's, but that ferryboat tag is definitely the star of your backyard hunt KingD! :notworthy:
That tag looks like it's been in the ground a long time too.
Dave
 

that's cool, so according to that link, your tag should predate 1891 when the ship was renamed. I like the picture of the ship on the link
 

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