Hurley NM / Camp Cody

[jimzz977]

A friend and I went early this morning to a old copper mining town called Hurley ,NM in whish I got permission to hunt. We hunt old buildings and a ball field and not much luck just 1960 Rosie and few wheatys . Next we headed to Camp Cody I research looking the camp and we were to locate it and found 1907 barber and few military buttons, I two nice find first a some kind of pendant with eagle and markings GAM. M FRY , I 5 I A. CAV, TROOP 8, any ideas??, also a button with MINN on it

 

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[Argentium]

Nice finds Jim ! Is Hurley down there near Silver City ? Was camp Cody a scout camp ?

 

[jimzz977]

Yes Hurley is just south of silver city, Camp Cody was ww1 training center , I was able Find the camps dump area

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds! Boy, I would work the "camps dump area"!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Glad the permission worked out well for you Jim. Sorry I am no help for the ID of the finds, but you pulled some quality keepers today.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds jim!

 

[nov2101]

Wow cool....

 

[against the wind]

Congrats on a good hunt and the Silver.
The pendant might be a material control tag for a specific unit. Just a guess.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice finds. I like that button and tag.

 

[trapperart]

No help with ID but congrats on some nice finds

 

[Carolina Tom]

Your "MINN" button is actually a military collar disc. It is a Type 1 collar disc from the Minnesota Nation Guard, circa: WW1.

Here is some info on collar discs:

http://hglanham.tripod.com/metalinsignia/collardisk1.html

That's a really nice find. Congrats sir!

I am stuck on that medal, it says "cav" which makes me think cavalry... perhaps a non standard issue ID tag from the military. I know that by WW1, they were issuing dog tags. Perhaps some better pics would spur on an ID.

 

[MrBlueSkyNM]

Sweet hunt! It's good to see another one of your posts. Congrats on those awesome finds!

 

[jimzz977]

this it all cleaned up its 1st IA CAV