bootstrap vinn
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Key date license plate!!!UPDATE for those who said "so what who cares"
Hi everyone, I detected an 1835 farmhouse yesterday and today.Got nothin' yesterday but a 1959 dog license and a 1960 dog licence and two clad quarters.Was invited to come back today and hunt the cellar,so I did.No coins in the cellar but I detected the walls(granite slab) and at the back of the house about four feet in from the inside corner in the center of the top slab that the sill sits on,I got a big hit.I thought,it must be on the outside of the slab as there is no room to get anything up under it. so I went around to the outside and there was an ell attached to the house right there,so I pulled up a couple boards and grabbed a piece of wood and started moving the debris.OH yeah I forgot to mention that this house is being disassembled and sold for salvage.So I scrape the debris aside and then I see just the corner of this plate.I immediately grabbed it up,I knew what it was as soon as I saw the corner as I have found one just like it before.I was really pyched because the last one I sold at a small local auction and got $50.00 for it and then I did a little more research and found out they've been going for upwards of $150,got screwed on that one but I'll make good on this one!I really never thought I'd find another one.I've found alot of license plates but only one of these before now.
It is an undated type one red porcalain on steel Maine tag #8225 Licence plate in damn good shape for the age.This is the first type of license plate issued by the state of Maine in 1912-13 and then the color changed to cobalt blue and they began to put the date on them.
I don't normally get so excited about a license plate but this one is special!!
I also found an 1883 and 1895 IHP before I left.Thanks for reading, Bootstrap
Hi everyone, I detected an 1835 farmhouse yesterday and today.Got nothin' yesterday but a 1959 dog license and a 1960 dog licence and two clad quarters.Was invited to come back today and hunt the cellar,so I did.No coins in the cellar but I detected the walls(granite slab) and at the back of the house about four feet in from the inside corner in the center of the top slab that the sill sits on,I got a big hit.I thought,it must be on the outside of the slab as there is no room to get anything up under it. so I went around to the outside and there was an ell attached to the house right there,so I pulled up a couple boards and grabbed a piece of wood and started moving the debris.OH yeah I forgot to mention that this house is being disassembled and sold for salvage.So I scrape the debris aside and then I see just the corner of this plate.I immediately grabbed it up,I knew what it was as soon as I saw the corner as I have found one just like it before.I was really pyched because the last one I sold at a small local auction and got $50.00 for it and then I did a little more research and found out they've been going for upwards of $150,got screwed on that one but I'll make good on this one!I really never thought I'd find another one.I've found alot of license plates but only one of these before now.
It is an undated type one red porcalain on steel Maine tag #8225 Licence plate in damn good shape for the age.This is the first type of license plate issued by the state of Maine in 1912-13 and then the color changed to cobalt blue and they began to put the date on them.
I don't normally get so excited about a license plate but this one is special!!
I also found an 1883 and 1895 IHP before I left.Thanks for reading, Bootstrap
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but that's life in our beautiful state. HH, Bootstrap
