My Mem.Day weekend....Junque

[jopher]

Headed up to "The Lake" this weekend.Had a day and a half to do the yard work on three separate homes.MDed in my free time...LOL. The clad on the bottom is from Sat. night on the local beach...slim pickens.The Junque on the left is from the shallows of an old landing site.I forgot my long handled scoop, so I was limited to very shallow water.The Junque on the right is from an old logging camp.It potentially is a good site but I havent yet located the workers cabin area.The "Hot" 30-06 cartridge is dated 1906.The ring is gold plated and has a Maltese cross inscripted.The stone fell out as well as a small grape leaf that was soldered onto the side.Also found one coin there ..a 1917 wheat.Last is the large cast item in the middle.This is a nicely scripted journal box lid from an old logging train.I found it along a narrow guage RR grade near my cabin.Ill offer this to the local historical museum there as they have pics of the train but no artifacts. Anyway heres my Junque...enjoy and Happy Hunting...Joe

 

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[jeff of pa]

COOL Junque jopher

 

[Southcacalaky]

Some good digs there, HH Art...

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Junque, is that French? What's it mean? Looks like a decent and fun hunt to me, good you got out and made some finds! HH, Mike

 

[dg39]

I know your local museum will be exicited to get that artifact from the early train!! I know I would.

 

[EDDE]

item above the buckle second picture looksl ike a charging pin/handle from a luger pistol

 

[jopher]

item above the buckle second picture looksl ike a charging pin/handle from a luger pistol

I know Nada about firearm parts.Looked like a trigger mech to me .The only script is the number 4.

 

[EDDE]

sounds like a gun part #

 

[jasonbo]

Some of those casings look military there

 

[trk5capt]

JOE, Very Nice Haul, Congrats. trk5capt...

 

[Rusted_Iron]

That is quite a haul!

That gun part is a trigger, but I'm not sure offhand what it's from.

Nice railroad artifact too!!

 

[allen]

way to go on the nice finds and wheat. keep on digging...

 

[ceejay64]

Excellent! Looks like you had a good weekend.

 

[lucky1777]

Looks like a very promising place to hunt. Good luck in the future.

 

[Nana40]

WoW Joe! You had a pocket full of relics this weekend!

Good stuff!

Nana

 

[Boobydoo]

WTG, nice finds there.
Pretty cool, something you found to be part of a museum display. That's awesome.
Congrats and thanks for sharing your interesting finds!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[lonewolfe]

Nice junk!

send it this way if you don't want it!

hh

lonewolfe

 

[jopher]

Nice junk!

send it this way if you don't want it!

hh

lonewolfe

Lonewolfe...Glad you could stop by...hope you can stay awhile.Its as if the Michigan MDers have been missing thier star player. H.H....Joe

 

[groundfisher]

You had a great hunt at that logging camp.The journal box cover is excellent.It cleaned up nice.I hope you can find the loggers bunkhouse.The digs in that area would probably produce more relics and coins and less junque. Good luck to you Joe. HH!

 

[goldencoin]

wow, thats a nice lot of finds....

-GC