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Went searching for old stuff today, hoping for a coin, or whatever. I was looking for someplace new as all the old sites have quit producing for me.
I think I found a new spot that may produce for awhile.
It's really a tough place with a crazy amount of nails, bedsprings, rusty bits of cans and other junk, but the signs are there!
I was really happy to see so many prosser buttons on top as that indicates no one has looked there, at least for a while.
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The broken spoon is silver.
The Great Seal button I believe is from the period of the Mexican-American war (correct me if I'm wrong, please).
That little oil lamp is the smallest I've ever seen!
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The little shot-glass looking thing is was bottle labeled "Colgate & Co. Perfumers, New York" and the top had broke off perfectly smooth. (I gave it a light sanding for safety :laughing7: )
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Such a tiny buckle!
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On the way out, at a site much younger, I spotted this 1938 Nesbitt's soda bottle with the top broken off, so I cut it off clean with my wet tile saw.
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I'll definitely be going back to this spot! I'm sure once some of the iron trash is removed the coins will start showing up.
 
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The little shot-glass looking thing is was bottle labeled "Colgate & Co. Perfumers, New York" and the top had broke off perfectly smooth. (I gave it a light sanding for safety :laughing7: )
Well now it's a shot glass, and the only one of its kind known to exist! Pretty cool!
 
Great finds
The shot glass is outstanding
Bottoms Up
Happy 4th of July……
 
Went searching for old stuff today, hoping for a coin, or whatever. I was looking for someplace new as all the old sites have quit producing for me.
I think I found a new spot that may produce for awhile.
It's really a tough place with a crazy amount of nails, bedsprings, rusty bits of cans and other junk, but the signs are there!
I was really happy to see so many prosser buttons on top as that indicates no one has looked there, at least for a while.
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The broken spoon is silver.
The Great Seal button I believe is from the period of the Mexican-American war (correct me if I'm wrong, please).
That little oil lamp is the smallest I've ever seen!
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The little shot-glass looking thing is was bottle labeled "Colgate & Co. Perfumers, New York" and the top had broke off perfectly smooth. (I gave it a light sanding for safety :laughing7: )
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Such a tiny buckle!
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On the way out, at a site much younger, I spotted this 1938 Nesbitt's soda bottle with the top broken off, so I cut it off clean with my wet tile saw.
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I'll definitely be going back to this spot! I'm sure once some of the iron trash is removed the coins will start showing up.
A very nice collection of finds! I think you're right about the coins eventually showing up to the party. Please keep us all posted.
 
Congrats on the new site.
Liking the repurposing for the shot glass and drinking glass.
Some really nice buttons also.
Best of luck getting the site.
 
Went searching for old stuff today, hoping for a coin, or whatever. I was looking for someplace new as all the old sites have quit producing for me.
I think I found a new spot that may produce for awhile.
It's really a tough place with a crazy amount of nails, bedsprings, rusty bits of cans and other junk, but the signs are there!
I was really happy to see so many prosser buttons on top as that indicates no one has looked there, at least for a while.
View attachment 2258561
The broken spoon is silver.
The Great Seal button I believe is from the period of the Mexican-American war (correct me if I'm wrong, please).
That little oil lamp is the smallest I've ever seen!
View attachment 2258570View attachment 2258571View attachment 2258573
View attachment 2258577View attachment 2258578View attachment 2258579

The little shot-glass looking thing is was bottle labeled "Colgate & Co. Perfumers, New York" and the top had broke off perfectly smooth. (I gave it a light sanding for safety :laughing7: )
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View attachment 2258580View attachment 2258581

Such a tiny buckle!
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On the way out, at a site much younger, I spotted this 1938 Nesbitt's soda bottle with the top broken off, so I cut it off clean with my wet tile saw.
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I'll definitely be going back to this spot! I'm sure once some of the iron trash is removed the coins will start showing up.
Good job, my friend. I hope that place brings you lots of good things and that you find some coins soon.
 
Yup, any place where people were drinking, playing the harmonica, and popping their buttons, should result in some coins being lost! :laughing7: Gold Luck!
 
Went searching for old stuff today, hoping for a coin, or whatever. I was looking for someplace new as all the old sites have quit producing for me.
I think I found a new spot that may produce for awhile.
It's really a tough place with a crazy amount of nails, bedsprings, rusty bits of cans and other junk, but the signs are there!
I was really happy to see so many prosser buttons on top as that indicates no one has looked there, at least for a while.
View attachment 2258561
The broken spoon is silver.
The Great Seal button I believe is from the period of the Mexican-American war (correct me if I'm wrong, please).
That little oil lamp is the smallest I've ever seen!
View attachment 2258570View attachment 2258571View attachment 2258573
View attachment 2258577View attachment 2258578View attachment 2258579

The little shot-glass looking thing is was bottle labeled "Colgate & Co. Perfumers, New York" and the top had broke off perfectly smooth. (I gave it a light sanding for safety :laughing7: )
View attachment 2258576
View attachment 2258580View attachment 2258581

Such a tiny buckle!
View attachment 2258582View attachment 2258584

On the way out, at a site much younger, I spotted this 1938 Nesbitt's soda bottle with the top broken off, so I cut it off clean with my wet tile saw.
View attachment 2258585

I'll definitely be going back to this spot! I'm sure once some of the iron trash is removed the coins will start showing up.
Was the 'shot glass' a surface find, If so it would be classified as SCA [ sun colored amethyst] due to manganese in the mix.
 
i love hunting in NV, it is like a giant beach,,,so much surface finds.
 

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