Old coal mining town in washington: Cool finds and more to come!

[Cam M.]

Hello Treasurenet community. This is my first post on here and i'd like to say hello! Me and my pop went on a pretty cool hunt and found some cool Items! We have found quite a few ball mason jar porcelain lids. Some of them are complete like the ones in the picture. But most are cracked or smashed because of how they were thrown away. Pretty neat to find and date back! I found some neat old telephone insulators! Could date em back but I didn't look through every page on the NIA. I also found an old spoon and a medicine bottle. My dad found what we thought was really awesome was a lid to a tin box that used to be cow utter lube! We have a lot more stuff to show and tell be we can't bring it all due to the long hike. Can't wait to continue to pull relics out! Stick around until next post this sunday or monday!

 

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[trapperart]

Welcome to the forum and good luck

 

[vpnavy]

1st - Noticed this was your very first post - so, Welcome Aboard Cam! Take a look at Sub-Forums: Washington for information (i.e., clubs, etc.) directly related to your state.

2nd - Nice assortment of finds!

 

[Old Pueblo]

Nice stuff. Is there any writing on the insulator, if so what is it? I might be able to find a date if there is writing on it. It probably dates to about 1900-1930, though.

 

[4x4x4]

....Fun Stuff ! The insulators are "post and tube" or Knob-and-tube wiring (sometimes abbreviated K&T) is an early standardized method of electrical wiring in buildings, in common use in North America from about 1880 to the 1930s !
Glad you and your Dad can share this hobby !
....Welcome from Southern California ! (a former Sequimite)

 

[Cam M.]

No unfortunately there's no writing on em. I Was looking around on The national Insulator Association but i could find anything. Edit: Nvm The guy below the comment explained the date. Thanks for asking!

 

[Cam M.]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed!

 

[Dan(NM)]

Hey Cam M, are up around Buckley, Carbonado or Wilkeson? I used to swing my machine in that neck of the woods.

 

[Cam M.]

Yeah I'm hunting in that vicinity. There's still a lot of stuff to find and go through at the site, so i'm not gonna reveal my exact location just let. In the area I'm hunting i have a massive trash pit, and the town through away all the stuff they didn't want and then left. I have barely dented it searching.

 

[Emitt]

Love the old glass. Welcome.

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[sutphin]

WELCOME NEW MEMBER, NEEET FINDS.

 

[Dan(NM)]

Yeah I'm hunting in that vicinity. There's still a lot of stuff to find and go through at the site, so i'm not gonna reveal my exact location just let. In the area I'm hunting i have a massive trash pit, and the town through away all the stuff they didn't want and then left. I have barely dented it searching.

I understand completely, I lived in Carbonado for 11 years, I found old tokens from all those old coal mining towns.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Still have any of those old token?

 

[against the wind]

Welcome to the forum from Port Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

 

[Dan(NM)]

Still have any of those old token?

I do, I have them all, they were some of the first tokens I dug after starting in 1988. And of course I dug a couple of tax tokens too

 

[washingtonian]

Looking forward to it! Good to see some more Washington guys around.

 

[Old Pueblo]

I do, I have them all, they were some of the first tokens I dug after starting in 1988. And of course I dug a couple of tax tokens too

Those are some really great finds. Tokens are some of my favorites. I even found one of those 1935 Washington tax tokens all the way down here in southern Arizona once.