Not worth anything but its Purrty

[BioProfessor]

Not worth anything but it's Purrty

I hunt around old houses when I have to. I generally dig all kinds of car parts, bearings, and other things made of brass, copper, etc. that just frustrate the heck out of me. So I usually give a quick look in coin mode and move on.

Sometimes though I will dig a dodad that is interesting. I like things that are decorated and look cool. This is one of those pieces that just look good enough for me to keep.

Gas valve anyone?

Daryl

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: Not worth anything but it's Purrty

Hi Buckle,

I dig it all. Even a little iron in new areas. But after all is said and done and I hang up my detector, if my legacy is a GAS VALVE? Come on, you got to admit that would be pretty sad.

Buttons? You can find buttons with these here fancy machines? Gosh darn it. Knew there had to be more stuff out there. Maybe I should keep some.

Daryl

 

[lairmo]

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That is nice!!! Love the keg tap idea!!!!!!!!
Nice buttons also......

 

[BuckleBoy]

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Hi Buckle,

I dig it all. Even a little iron in new areas. But after all is said and done and I hang up my detector, if my legacy is a GAS VALVE? Come on, you got to admit that would be pretty sad.

Buttons? You can find buttons with these here fancy machines? Gosh darn it. Knew there had to be more stuff out there. Maybe I should keep some.

Daryl

Well, my legacy for the past week has been buttons--but ones of the flat, non-descript kind.

 

[SoreKneesDayton]

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Daryl,

It looks like an old gas line shutoff valve. Nice find!

SKD

 

[allen]

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sweet find !!!

 

[Goes4ever]

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I found two of them last year and donated them to my local museum, they are now on display there, that small donation also earned me and my hunting partner permission to hunt the 1890 house that the museum is housed in! Got a gold ring, indian, wheats and a seated dime from there.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Re: Not worth anything but it's Purrty

Yes it is purty, those finds happen, LOL! Any pics from the UK hunt? HH, Mike

 

[bigrig40]

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very cool find. peace,bigrig

 

[thrillathahunt]

Re: Not worth anything but it's Purrty

old gas valve circa 1908

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

Re: Not worth anything but it's Purrty

cool

 

[woody50]

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I found one too! They had a lot of style and quality a hundred years ago!! Nice find! bg

Wow, this one is neat too, and even the pipe is neat, great find!

 

[woody50]

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I thought i did .Im haveing problems with the size of the pictures......If i post it ,it could be a monster Maybe someone can resize

Again, another great gas spigot! Nice find! You can find free resize programs on the net, just look for them...

 

[woody50]

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old gas valve circa 1908

Gads, you guys sure find the gas valves! Neat find. Never found one myself, well not really. I can
remember finding one plain one years ago, its still on the side of the field where I threw it I guess.

 

[woody50]

Re: Not worth anything but it's Purrty

I hunt around old houses when I have to. I generally dig all kinds of car parts, bearings, and other things made of brass, copper, etc. that just frustrate the heck out of me. So I usually give a quick look in coin mode and move on.
Sometimes though I will dig a dodad that is interesting. I like things that are decorated and look cool. This is one of those pieces that just look good enough for me to keep.
Gas valve anyone?
Daryl

Hi Daryl, if I found something like this I would be jumping up and down, maybe not so fast as if it
was a perfect gold coin from 0900ad or something, but still jumping. Never even seen an ornate
gas valve. Maybe that is because gas was not discovered until 1959 here in Holland, in a enormous
field in Groningen (you know where that is). That find, and later ones made Holland an large exporting
country here in Europe, and is still going great. The field is said to last for another 40 years.

But in 1959 the neat spigot stuff was long gone, no one took anytime to create such things in that
era, just mass production and so. So your spigot and the others show here are just wonderful finds
for my eyes!

Your buttons are neat too! All of these finds will or do look good in your display cabinet!

 

[John (Ma)]

Re: Not worth anything but it's Purrty

That is a real keeper. I would take that any day.