CoinandRelicMan
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Over the years you make a few finds and at the time of the finding it is quite exciting getting to find them but sometimes it can literally take years to really appreciate finds for how rare they are to get ! This is why I have never sold any because you will soon be regretting the loss of that special find from your collection.
I will begin my tale about the items chronologically.
This item was found at the depth of around ten inches as I recall. Was using a Tesoro Golden Sabre with a 10 inch concentric coil. It was in the late 1980s when I found it. It is hermetically sealed in Lexan. While I don't have a really solid ID on this item, it resembles a sword belt plate. Some folks have told me it was a cloth belt plate. Regardless of the real value or true identity of the item the cool factor of this item is off the scale for me and will be very tough to top!
This very large wrench (three inched) was found underneath a Cedar Evergreen tree it was buried under at least seven inches of the leaves. The wrench was found with a Tesoro Bandito II in the late 1980s. The man who used this had to have been a big man this wrench has some considerable weight ! Finding a large wrench like this must be rare since it is the only one like this that I have found in Thirty plus years of detecting !
This has to be my best button find ever, although our area is somewhat poor history wise sometimes an older item will emerge from the soil! This item was found by the Minelab Safari in some black sugar sand. Don't recall how deep it was but thats probably not important given it came from a harrowed field. I have had a "East Coast" friend who tentatively dated it as 1820s to 1830s. He even wanted to buy it, a high compliment, but I was unwilling to sell. All I know about flat buttons from my experience is that most of the time they are just that and every one that has been unearthed for me has nothing on the front of it ! Sometimes they might have a hint of some gilding showing. My own thoughts are that this button might be a bit more earlier than that even but I am no expert, so this may be just a good fantasy ! The location of this find was near a river bottom flood plain. In the past rivers were the highways of the land before any were man made so in my mind this lends justification to its early age.
Hope you enjoyed my posting, one never knows what the soil holds in wait the only way to find out is to go forth and dig !! Will I ever top these finds? I don't know but it will sure be fun trying to do that !
I will begin my tale about the items chronologically.
This item was found at the depth of around ten inches as I recall. Was using a Tesoro Golden Sabre with a 10 inch concentric coil. It was in the late 1980s when I found it. It is hermetically sealed in Lexan. While I don't have a really solid ID on this item, it resembles a sword belt plate. Some folks have told me it was a cloth belt plate. Regardless of the real value or true identity of the item the cool factor of this item is off the scale for me and will be very tough to top!
This very large wrench (three inched) was found underneath a Cedar Evergreen tree it was buried under at least seven inches of the leaves. The wrench was found with a Tesoro Bandito II in the late 1980s. The man who used this had to have been a big man this wrench has some considerable weight ! Finding a large wrench like this must be rare since it is the only one like this that I have found in Thirty plus years of detecting !
This has to be my best button find ever, although our area is somewhat poor history wise sometimes an older item will emerge from the soil! This item was found by the Minelab Safari in some black sugar sand. Don't recall how deep it was but thats probably not important given it came from a harrowed field. I have had a "East Coast" friend who tentatively dated it as 1820s to 1830s. He even wanted to buy it, a high compliment, but I was unwilling to sell. All I know about flat buttons from my experience is that most of the time they are just that and every one that has been unearthed for me has nothing on the front of it ! Sometimes they might have a hint of some gilding showing. My own thoughts are that this button might be a bit more earlier than that even but I am no expert, so this may be just a good fantasy ! The location of this find was near a river bottom flood plain. In the past rivers were the highways of the land before any were man made so in my mind this lends justification to its early age.
Hope you enjoyed my posting, one never knows what the soil holds in wait the only way to find out is to go forth and dig !! Will I ever top these finds? I don't know but it will sure be fun trying to do that !
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