skeleton key, drawer pull, 2 foreign coins and an $18 14k ladies watch(web find)!!?

[RatherBeDigging]

Back to a usual spot that is best with small 18.75khz coil after rain. Finally got a skeleton key after three escutcheons in this lot in the last 3 months. The key has a 29 marked on the part that turns the lock.

My 1st trade token $1 car wash token... guess that counts. The two foreign coins were fresh surface finds 50€ cents and 50 stotinki from Bulgaria. A smashed lipstick tube and a nice but fire damaged brass drawer pull. Nice to have a whole one out of here. The last one (different style) broke trying to get it out but it was pretty thin and burned.

Last but not least a 14k white gold with two small diamonds Zodiac watch. The original Zodiac. Company. Fossil bought Zodiac in 2000. I collect the vintage Zodiac watches and happened to come across this. It was marked as quartz though it clearly pre-dates quartz and the seller completely missed 14k on the back. Needs a new rope band so my girlfriend can wear it. But hard to argue with $18 shipping included for a working 14k 17 jewel swiss cocktail watch.

 

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[pepperj]

Nice score on the watch.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice finds. I like that skeleton key.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice hunt and cool watch score!

 

[Tuberale]

Cool watch! Excellent.

 

[Squirrel322]

Nice score on the watch! That key is wild. Is it hollow?

 

[against the wind]

If the key is hallow, it is probably a railroad signal lock key. Congrats on some nice finds.

 

[RatherBeDigging]

By hallow you mean that hole in the side? Thought I smashed it with the shovel but there aren't shovel marks on it. Haven't really cleaned it up much yet. The railroad through the town this was found was built in 1876. Only marking I can see right now is a number 29.