Silver, Gold, Civil War, and POLICE

rastinirv

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The past few days have been some of the nicest days I've had detecting. First, the weather has been stupendous. Second, I've been working a small section of a large park I've been to many times before and there have been many interesting finds. Here are some of the highlights:

Large silver bracelet with silver beads (took a while to find all the beads!) plus a 10gram 10K 1973 class ring (trying to find owner)

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A closer view of the ring

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Silver Washington

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Some kind of old buckle

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Old lipstick (kind of gross actually, but the brass part is cool)

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CW-era minie ball and a lead figurine (pretty sure it's a policeman); I could find no manufacturer info on the figurine, wish I knew who made it and how old it is

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Another view

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Also found a lot of clad (and pulltabs) and a handful of wheaties. Thanks for looking and HH
 

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HutSiteDigger

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yah i see the policeman now in this photo with the blue... the photo in What Is It i couldn't make out the blue like this one.. Neat finds..
 

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great finds, especially the class ring. odd lead figure. I wonder why his head is cocked to the side
 

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Very nice finds! I'm sure Subterranean will be able to tell you something about the lead figurine. :thumbsup:
 

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Hi Chris,

I have been looking at the pix of your figure, and comparing them with the pix in my reference books. I have not been able to locate an exact match, sorry. You are correct, the figure may be of a police officer at attention, or possibly a WW1 to WW2 US Marine in blue dress uniform. The oval base is different from any I could find. Britains soldiers have rectangular bases and most dimestore figures from America are larger (70mm) in height. Yours appears more to be a 54 mm or smaller, am I correct? I will continue to look for you and let you know if I find anything. Happy hunting, Subterranean.
 

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rastinirv

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Hi Chris,

I have been looking at the pix of your figure, and comparing them with the pix in my reference books. I have not been able to locate an exact match, sorry. You are correct, the figure may be of a police officer at attention, or possibly a WW1 to WW2 US Marine in blue dress uniform. The oval base is different from any I could find. Britains soldiers have rectangular bases and most dimestore figures from America are larger (70mm) in height. Yours appears more to be a 54 mm or smaller, am I correct? I will continue to look for you and let you know if I find anything. Happy hunting, Subterranean.

Thanks alot for taking a look at it. It is 2 and 1/16th inches long, which I think puts it under 54mm.
 

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