Nana40
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I dunno. I haven't kept count. :P 
But last week, while hunting a favorite site, I came across another whole harmonica reed. I've found many of them, but never found the 'outside' part. Just after digging it, my next signal was this...
I thought that was so cool! I wasn't expecting it, but was fun to find. Says it was made in Germany. Has two four leaf clovers with writing in the middle of them. Left one says: The very best made...and the right one says: Nothing to equal it. And then in the middle are the words: Lover Harmonica. This site is a doozy to hunt. There are plants here called Vinca. It grows like crazy....kinda like kudzu..only smaller and only on the ground. Vines everywhere and difficult to swing the detector without having them wrapped around the coil at every pass. But I know there are some hidden goodies here, so every so often we hit it.
Another first for me to find was a REM/UMC Colt 45 shell. It's a keeper. Found a neat little buckle with the word SOLIDE on it. Dates the site. Another buckle or two..one has PERFECTION on it and the other, NeBone. Always like to find the buckles. Then there's the square lead thingy that I think is a lead seal? Of course the ever present tax token, but I was a bit surprised to find it here at this site as the site is older than the tax token era.
But you know it's pretty much a standard that they are like magnets to my detector. :P
Found a neat trinket buried in the mass of vines and tin. I didn't think it would clean up as good as it did. Had to sit and pic all the dirt off with a tooth pick. Took quite a while, but it's a keeper even tho it looks to be gold plated. I'm thinking this is a pretty old piece and maybe why I like it so much.
And then the round thing with the two pieces I found about 20 feet apart. It says: Horlick's Malted Milk. Maybe some type of advertisement?
Got in another hunt around the site where Terri found her first Injun'. These houses were not on the late 1800's map, but according to the 1905 maps, there were quite a few in this same area about 500 feet apart. Then they're all gone on the 1910 maps. I got to wondering what could have happened to all these places for them to be gone in a five year span. Well...Lisa has a series of books that I had read thru last year, and I thought I remembered reading about a huge storm that came across the area. I asked her to look thru the book with the time period that we were interested in, and sure enough in 1908 there was a tornado outbreak that went right over this area. So my theory is that in one day everyone on this hillside lost their homes. So sad to think about all these folks that had worked so hard, only to have it swept away in a day.
Across the road we spent a couple of hours hunting where one of those houses use to sit. There was also an old site that was around till the 40's maybe 50 feet away, so some of these relics I'm sure are from that one as well. Here's what I found in between both places:
Lisa found the bowl part of the spoon and I found the other end. The piece on the bottom..maybe a scarf tie? Looks like it was silver plated at one time. Only a bit left on it here and there.
Not much in comparison to what I have seen here this morning, but it was fun to get out when I could. I have a new site I hope to get to next week if the weather holds out. You guys up north need to close that door!!!! BRRR! It's cold!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!
Nana
But last week, while hunting a favorite site, I came across another whole harmonica reed. I've found many of them, but never found the 'outside' part. Just after digging it, my next signal was this...
I thought that was so cool! I wasn't expecting it, but was fun to find. Says it was made in Germany. Has two four leaf clovers with writing in the middle of them. Left one says: The very best made...and the right one says: Nothing to equal it. And then in the middle are the words: Lover Harmonica. This site is a doozy to hunt. There are plants here called Vinca. It grows like crazy....kinda like kudzu..only smaller and only on the ground. Vines everywhere and difficult to swing the detector without having them wrapped around the coil at every pass. But I know there are some hidden goodies here, so every so often we hit it.
Another first for me to find was a REM/UMC Colt 45 shell. It's a keeper. Found a neat little buckle with the word SOLIDE on it. Dates the site. Another buckle or two..one has PERFECTION on it and the other, NeBone. Always like to find the buckles. Then there's the square lead thingy that I think is a lead seal? Of course the ever present tax token, but I was a bit surprised to find it here at this site as the site is older than the tax token era.
But you know it's pretty much a standard that they are like magnets to my detector. :P
Found a neat trinket buried in the mass of vines and tin. I didn't think it would clean up as good as it did. Had to sit and pic all the dirt off with a tooth pick. Took quite a while, but it's a keeper even tho it looks to be gold plated. I'm thinking this is a pretty old piece and maybe why I like it so much.
And then the round thing with the two pieces I found about 20 feet apart. It says: Horlick's Malted Milk. Maybe some type of advertisement?
Got in another hunt around the site where Terri found her first Injun'. These houses were not on the late 1800's map, but according to the 1905 maps, there were quite a few in this same area about 500 feet apart. Then they're all gone on the 1910 maps.
I got to wondering what could have happened to all these places for them to be gone in a five year span. Well...Lisa has a series of books that I had read thru last year, and I thought I remembered reading about a huge storm that came across the area. I asked her to look thru the book with the time period that we were interested in, and sure enough in 1908 there was a tornado outbreak that went right over this area. So my theory is that in one day everyone on this hillside lost their homes. So sad to think about all these folks that had worked so hard, only to have it swept away in a day.
Across the road we spent a couple of hours hunting where one of those houses use to sit. There was also an old site that was around till the 40's maybe 50 feet away, so some of these relics I'm sure are from that one as well. Here's what I found in between both places:
Lisa found the bowl part of the spoon and I found the other end. The piece on the bottom..maybe a scarf tie? Looks like it was silver plated at one time. Only a bit left on it here and there.
Not much in comparison to what I have seen here this morning, but it was fun to get out when I could. I have a new site I hope to get to next week if the weather holds out. You guys up north need to close that door!!!! BRRR! It's cold!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!
Nana
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Great looking buckle too. 
Heyyy! Great finds and story Nana. 
