Sentimental find

[psgen]

Value wise this isn't my best find .............. but oh the sentimental value....................which makes it priceless........and one of my best finds ever..........................here is the story..............short and brief.


I was detecting in my father's yard, the homestead cleared and built by my great-grandfather around 1850......I got a strong singal showing $1 at 4".................eagerly digging, 4" came and went....... yet the singal remained very strong and constant....... pinpointer couldn't locate it......... so I kept diggin, after 10" I finally found the source of the signal, which at first I thought was and old tin can..........I completed the dig and it was an old toy shovel........wow!! ......... to which my father replied my shovel, that's my shovel..... I lost that when I was about 3 years old..........there use to be a sand pile right here.....and then the stories began, which is what it is all about the history...I have made a new handle for this prize and proudly display it in my living room.....

 

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[Nana40]

AWWW! What a great story!! That HAS to be really special! Makes me wanna cry a little.....

Great find indeed!

Nana

 

[lets_go]

Cool. I bet that set your Father back a few years.

 

[Getty]

A TRULY great find.

 

[hollowpointred]

thats awesome!

 

[Mona Lisa]

That's such a nice story, psgen. It's neat that your father remembered it.

 

[retro-redux]

that truly is a valuable find-be proud of your persistence to find what was down that hole
Laura

 

[packerbacker]

You're a chip off the ol' block psgen! Looks like your Dad was a digger too.

 

[DJ_Quinn]

What a cool story. A piece of family history is a great treasure! Thanks for posting that.

 

[alabamadan]

That's the best find I've read about...

Brought to mind the commercial where the boy was playing with a ship on the beach and lost it. Years later as a man he's surfing eBay and....

If I were a woman I would cry.

 

[T-Rex]

I had a similar find a couple weeks ago... I was out in front of a real old church yard where my grandparents are buried and got a carbon copy hit to what you described... my Dad was with me and he plucked it out of the ground about 4 or 5 inches...

It was the Churches old coal shovel they used to heat the place... it was minus the handle but it made my Dad very happy to find it so I let him keep it...

 

[xXx]

Great story, and just in time for Fathers Day.
Good Job.
xXx

 

[allen]

cool story. hope it made your fathers day.

 

[DugHoles]

As all have said, what a great Fathers Day find

GL & HH,

DugHoles
Upstate NY

 

[JARMAN]

Thats such a great find and story psgn,Diggin your own history.how great.