time4me
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Turns out today was a beautiful day - probably the nicest day we've had all week. I started out the day by putting the tiny sniper coil on the DFX and trying it out around my in-laws yard (which I've hunted heavily over the past 10 years).
I was able to coax out a button - most likely from a pair of Finck's Red Bar overalls. From what I could gather through google and ebay, Finck's Red Bar brand work clothes were made around 1940's timeframe.
Then I found a tiny die that looks like it was used for newspaper printing or something. The special thing about it is that it is a die for the letter "W" which is what my last name starts with...
Next my father-in-law and I drove about a mile away to tramp through the woods looking for where a couple of houses show in plat maps he's got from 1859 and 1885. We couldn't find any foundations or cellar holes, but I did find this top part of an old milk can out in the woods. Gregory is a town very close to Pinckney where my in-laws live...
The only other find worth mention from the walk in the woods is this axe head...
We fly back to California tomorrow morning, so the next time I'll be detecting in Michigan will most likely be next June (unless there is a freak heat wave in February). I'm definitely looking forward to next summer's visit, as my cousin wants us to detect around his property - two houses built in 1946 on a small lake, with an old foundation on his property near his house. He is also going to line up permission for us to detect his neighbor's property which has this sitting on it...
Happy Hunting!!!
Jim
I was able to coax out a button - most likely from a pair of Finck's Red Bar overalls. From what I could gather through google and ebay, Finck's Red Bar brand work clothes were made around 1940's timeframe.
Then I found a tiny die that looks like it was used for newspaper printing or something. The special thing about it is that it is a die for the letter "W" which is what my last name starts with...
Next my father-in-law and I drove about a mile away to tramp through the woods looking for where a couple of houses show in plat maps he's got from 1859 and 1885. We couldn't find any foundations or cellar holes, but I did find this top part of an old milk can out in the woods. Gregory is a town very close to Pinckney where my in-laws live...
The only other find worth mention from the walk in the woods is this axe head...
We fly back to California tomorrow morning, so the next time I'll be detecting in Michigan will most likely be next June (unless there is a freak heat wave in February). I'm definitely looking forward to next summer's visit, as my cousin wants us to detect around his property - two houses built in 1946 on a small lake, with an old foundation on his property near his house. He is also going to line up permission for us to detect his neighbor's property which has this sitting on it...
Happy Hunting!!!
Jim
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