I bet they hate losing one of these ! and a Big Sign !

[MaineRelic]

Dec 2 and the weather is still holding ! In the 50's today and no freeze up in sight at least through the weekend ! I got a short hunt in after work today. An hour and a half on a small intown wooded lot I just got permission on . Another pretty trashy site but I made a couple of finds during my first cleanup hunt there . The first find was the Standard oil sign just underneath the leaf duff ! In good enough shape to lug home . My next interesting find was the Portland Police Badge ! You don't see many police badges old or contemporary posted on here ! A nice piece of local history to find . I also found a 1909 wheatie, no VDB. One flat button backmarked Imperial treble gilt a spoon marked United Whelan Cigars and drugs ! and a few pieces of clad . I don't have great hope for this site but I found just enough to perhaps warrant a 2nd hunt . Thanks for looking ! MaineRelic.

 

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[ivan salis]

wow a police badge super cool find * with a bit of luck you maybe could find out who owned it.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Love the look of that old porcelain oil sign . . . bet it'll clean up nice!
Great looking Portland Police Badge . . . any idea of the age?

 

[MaineRelic]

Love the look of that old porcelain oil sign . . . bet it'll clean up nice!
Great looking Portland Police Badge . . . any idea of the age?

The badge was about 2 inches down and by the looks and the condition I would guess 60,s or 70's maybe even the 80's .

 

[Steve in PA]

That police badge is cool! You should wear it when you go to ask for permissions Seriously, I knew a PA state cop who asked for permission to detect while in uniform and always got a "yes sir".

Oh yeah, I know a couple guys from American Pickers who will buy that sign from you - LOL

 

[thrillathahunt]

Looks like you got yourself a Model T valve stem cover too.

 

[Mr Tuff]

killer sign hit it with some turtle wax!! it will look AWESOME!!!! show us the after pics.. nice badge!!! MR TUFF

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Love the sign and the badge is great too

 

[Indianhead Jones]

Great finds!

The sign, even in it's present condition is highly collectible....I think it would do very well on Ebay!

Love the police badge....I'd research it!

Keep working that site....so far it looks very promising!

Larry G.

 

[allen]

those finds alone make it worth taking your
chance on another hunt at that site !!

 

[Saabman]

Those are great finds!!! WTG!!!

 

[pepperj]

Nice going on the badge, being of 3 digits it be an earlier one.

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

i think its a lot of fun looking through the trash for a little thing always seems to pop out nice hunting krazyhorses

 

[LI Tom]

The police item looks like a cap device for a uniform hat.Does it have post on the back for a screw?

 

[augusthog]

Outstanding Finds! The sign and badge are tooo cooool

 

[aa battery]

dang good finds

 

[DigginThePast]

Lovin the sign!

 

[mhagy1]

Nice finds. I was thinking the same thing about the badge being a hat badge. Will look forward to hearing about the back of it.

 

[SCMDing]

Love the sign, and yes, like someone mentioned, highly collectible.

Here is a link to one in Great shape with two days left on eBay, at $810.00 when I posted this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Socony-Motor-Ga...594?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e501001a

And I am not posting the encourage selling, or not selling discussions. Just want you to realize its value. I would guess that yours is in the $100-$200 range, but you never know They can clean up pretty nice and all it takes is two people to really want it!

Congrats again on all the finds.

 

[Imnengr]

That police badge is really sweet! I'd love to find that. Nice job.