October’s Finds – The Clean Up!

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I detected three times on three different sites in October and unfortunately I didn’t find much. :dontknow: Some of my more interesting finds were a bone-handled fork (broken). I wish the fork had been more complete, but at least it's an early 3-tine design.

It wasn't until the late 1600s and early 1700s that people began to purchase multiple sets of silverware for their homes, which were just beginning to be equipped with rooms specifically set aside for dining. It was also around this time that forks with three and then four tines were made. The fork did not become popular in North America until near the time of the American Revolution. The standard four-tine design became popular in the early-19thc.

I also found a button set with purple glass and a large brass tag from an old ‘Friction Governor’ stamped Apple Electric Co. (A governor, or speed limiter or controller, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine.) The iron disc with the number 8 on it is the base of a scale weight.

Thanks very much for looking,
Dave


Apple Electric Company – Dayton, OH

One of the most prolific individuals in the late-19thc was a man named Vincent G. Apple. Vincent Groby Apple (January 26, 1874 – September 24, 1932) was an American inventor whose parts were used in the first commercially successful American flight of a heavier-than-air powered airplane. Apple was born on a farm, just outside Miamisburg, Ohio. In 1903, his magneto ignition system was used by the Wright brothers in their flyers at Kitty Hawk.

Vincent founded his first company (Franklin Electric Company) at the early age of eighteen. The Franklin Electric Company eventually evolved into the Dayton Electric and Manufacturing Company, with several more ventures following, including Apple Electric Company and Apple Laboratories.
Apple’s inventive nature rivaled that of Thomas Alva Edison, surpassing the Wizard of Menlo Park in some respects. Apple’s inventions included a magneto starting system for the Wright Flyer, an automobile lighting system, tungsten bulbs and his most acknowledged invention, the isolated home/farm lighting system.

Apple had received 350 patents in his lifetime and, at the time of his death at age 58, there were still 130 patents awaiting approval at the Patent Office. Other inventions that he had developed would have brought the amount of patents he had either received or was eligible for to around 1,500 total patents.
 

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I was wondering if work was keeping you tied up! Good to see you found time to get out.

The button and fork are both interesting. Will be curious to hear how stabilizing that fork turned out if you bothered.
Hi Dallas, it's been a while. :wave:
Yes, I've been doing a lot of traveling since I started with Generac, but it's great to be back to work!

I'll be presenting the fork and numerous other finds from the old linen mill workers cabins site to the landowner in a shadowbox frame one day soon.

Hope you've been able to get out lately,
Dave
 

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Yes, the fall seems to be pretty mild this year, as was the spring. Hopefully, we won't have a large snow storm covering up the ground,than the temperature won't really matter.
I hear you Anton, I had my wife's winter tires put on yesterday and I get mine done next week. The weather is really going cool down after November 19th as well. There looks to be snow tomorrow in your part of the country too.
 

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Hey, hey, hey, you found something from my neck of the woods. And taught me some history about it too! The button is pretty cool but I really like the fork.
Thank you for posting WD. :hello:
I love researching anything that has writing on it to determine the date of manufacture. This also helps to give me an idea of what was going on at the site where I found this in the 1920s.

Hope you're still able to get out detecting, as the season is quickly coming to a close.
Dave
 

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I hear you Anton, I had my wife's winter tires put on yesterday and I get mine done next week. The weather is really going cool down after November 19th as well. There looks to be snow tomorrow in your part of the country too.
Oh yes. Winter is coming, no matter how much I try to avoid it,it always does :laughing7:
 

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Oh yes. Winter is coming, no matter how much I try to avoid it,it always does :laughing7:
At least you made what I feel to be a historic find here in Canada with the cache of copper coins and that incredible pair of specs Anton! :hello2: Congrats again my friend, Dave
 

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