New place to hunt yields a 1909 wheatie

crazyjarhead · Nov 9, 2008

Hello everyone. After meeting up with the friend who got me started in this hobby, Randy Bennigton, we met up over at the JA McDonald house to try to see what he could find with his new Explorer SE. Unfortunately, he is still getting used to it and came up empty handed. I managed to pull out the New York CW cuff button in the front yard (posted on another topic). With the wind chill in the 30's we decided to go to a new place that he had acquired permission to hunt 20 miles away. Here, the wind was less brutal. The house had been vacant for years and was built at the turn of the last century. Not too much trash but lots of hits. I was able to pull out 17 good Wheaties in a couple of hours. The oldest being a 1909. When I saw the date my body went numb and my heart raced. I thought, could this be it?? No way, not today. Darn!! I checked real good too but no luck of squeezing out the VDB I was hoping for. Maybe today I will find it. I also found a brass door knob, an old key plate (whatever you call them), a rifle shell casing with 1941 and the roman numbers V11 on it and R^L too

Also found what I thought was a token but had 5C L. Millice Loaf??. No silver yet but I know by finding that many Wheaties it has to be lurking somewhere. The spoon was found on a previous hunt at the JA McDonald place. The tag was also found there. It has patents all from the 1850's. I don't know what it came off of. The yard is pretty big, maybe 1/2 acre so I will be busy here for a while. Thanks for looking and I'll keep you updated as usuall Ron

blklab · Nov 9, 2008

What a great day of hunting. Congratulations on the terrific finds. Awesome.
You need to get back out there. I'm sure there's plenty more. Silver hopefully.
Good Luck. (blklab) :thumbsup:

burglarifyoulike · Nov 9, 2008

crazyjarhead said:
burglarifyoulike said:

what great stuff!! i love finding unique items and wide variety of items! i especially like the token (bread lover that i am)...

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Thanks Burglar What a name

"burglar if you like" is from THE HOBBIT (i am a huge Tolkien fan), where Gandalf is telling Bilbo's "job description". i wanted to use something from THE HOBBIT; my son and his girlfriend and i were looking at the section when Gandalf is presenting Bilbo's "job description" and says something like "expert treasure hunter, a burglar if you like." i cannot claim to be an expert treasure hunter, although maybe someday

, so my son's girlfriend suggested burglarifyoulike as one word and i liked it!!

kimsdad · Nov 9, 2008

I think you found the crooked little house where the crooked little man lived. Was there a hole in the roof with a crooked little patch? :tongue3:

Seriously, you find some great looking places to hunt. Congrats on all the nice finds!! :thumbsup:

Good luck pulling up the silver!

Weasel_Loader · Nov 9, 2008

WOW!!! That's a nice site. I'd love to see how that house looked in it's day. It should hold a lot of treasures. :thumbsup:

treasurefiend · Nov 9, 2008

Awesome hunt bud!!! Keep tearing that place up!!! Hopefully there will be an S on your VDB when you find it!!! :icon_pirat:

crazyjarhead · Nov 10, 2008

kimsdad said:
I think you found the crooked little house where the crooked little man lived. Was there a hole in the roof with a crooked little patch?

Seriously, you find some great looking places to hunt. Congrats on all the nice finds!!

Good luck pulling up the silver!

Actually my hunting partner found it. He knows a lot of people from his side job of having a body shop and at work. We can't figure out where the main entrance was. I see the porch but no steps?? At least the guy that owns it keeps the grass mowed

RONC(OR) · Nov 10, 2008

Nice finds there has to be silver there I like the bread token comgrats HH

watercolor · Nov 10, 2008

Very neat 1909 and that token is really cool!!
Those places sure look like they want to start giving up some silver

Dig on!
watercolor

crazyjarhead · Nov 10, 2008

watercolor said:
Very neat 1909 and that token is really cool!!
Those places sure look like they want to start giving up some silver

Dig on!
watercolor

I did get some yesterday. I just have to upload the pics. Got cold yesterday and went out to eat with my son then went to bed.

Lucky Jack · Nov 10, 2008

That rifle shell appears to be a British .303 round. A lot of surplus rifles and ammo was sold off during the 60's. Probably someone bought one for a deer rifle.

crazyjarhead · Nov 10, 2008

Lucky Jack said:
That rifle shell appears to be a British .303 round. A lot of surplus rifles and ammo was sold off during the 60's. Probably someone bought one for a deer rifle.

Thanks for the info LJ