headstones brick knife button

[McCDig]

Got on this AM with Jamie1993 and we started in the rec fields at a Baltimore City park. Jamie got a couple coin spills, one of which included a 1919 Buff and two wheats from the 20s.
I managed a couple wheats (40s) and a small metal cuff button, my relic for the day. We then ventured into the woods in search of the grave markers reported to have been discovered there. While searching we detected and I came upon a target just beneath the leaves, a kitchen knife. We exited the woods, got our bearings and entered along a different path. This time we spotted the headstones and found they appear to have been dumped there, perhaps amongst some fill or maybe just dumped from a city truck used during sewer line work in this depression. Two of the stones have names: Bridget Burns and P. Zazzera. On our way out of the woods and back to our vehicles I spotted a brick along the edge of a rubble field and it is marked "Shawmut PA". Found some info through a webpage titled "Bricks - Baltimore Brick by Brick" that tells of where this one was made. This was a hunt with some unusual finds.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Diving for Pleasure and Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[JackalopeZL1]

Neat finds Mike! Was there a date on the grave stone?

 

[McCDig]

Thx Ken! No dates. Did some searching on Ancestry and found a Peter Zazzera (Italian) who lived in Baltimore in the teens and twenties and had a business with his brother. May be the same guy; it's not a name you run into much in Baltimore.

 

[RudyT]

Very nice!! What kind of coin is that in your hand.

 

[sprailroad]

As far as bricks? For may years on the job I collected bricks with names on them, ended up with perhaps 50 to 75? different names, such as "Pluto" and "Snowball". It was interesting to research each one. Kind of sad about the headstones just being dumped there.

 

[McCDig]

Thx Rudy. Yes that does look like a coin, but it is the small metal flat button, very thin with intact eyelet on the back, probably a cuff button.

 

[McCDig]

Had to be Baltimore City that dumped them. These are located close to an old sewer line outlet that we mistook for part of a mill with all the stone work.

 

[RudyT]

Thanks buddy.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Interesting find, congratulations!

 

[8Reales]

Congrats Mike, read that story about those headstones being dumped at that park not long ago.