DigToChina
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Hello fellow MDers,
I managed to get a couple times this weekend and while I didn?t find anything Earth shattering, I did find something interesting which linked to the farm origins of this school park I?m MDing. Close to the end of my hunt Sunday, I hit a 86-89 signal at 20cm so fairly deep. Thinking I could get lucky I dug extra wide. While I didn?t get ?lucky?, I did find this.
Obviously knew it wasn?t silver and it was too light but not magnetic (I have one attached to Lesche) so figured aluminum. Turns out to be a T.E. Bissell token.
Unmarked example:
T.E. Bissell:
With about $3,000 of his savings and a set of plans, T.E. Bissell began to manufacture disk harrows in 1894. When he sold the business thirty-four years later (just prior to Great Depression) he had become the largest disk harrow manufacturer in Canada.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11756
These tokens were given out during farming demos. Why was he a stick in the mud? He was a strong believer in temperance and headed several plebiscites in the community to try to ban liquor. He failed [emoji482]
Looks like I found an older lock too but suggestions on how to clean it up are appreciated. The last lock I tried electrolysis on didn?t fair well.
I managed to get a couple times this weekend and while I didn?t find anything Earth shattering, I did find something interesting which linked to the farm origins of this school park I?m MDing. Close to the end of my hunt Sunday, I hit a 86-89 signal at 20cm so fairly deep. Thinking I could get lucky I dug extra wide. While I didn?t get ?lucky?, I did find this.
Obviously knew it wasn?t silver and it was too light but not magnetic (I have one attached to Lesche) so figured aluminum. Turns out to be a T.E. Bissell token.
Unmarked example:
T.E. Bissell:
With about $3,000 of his savings and a set of plans, T.E. Bissell began to manufacture disk harrows in 1894. When he sold the business thirty-four years later (just prior to Great Depression) he had become the largest disk harrow manufacturer in Canada.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11756
These tokens were given out during farming demos. Why was he a stick in the mud? He was a strong believer in temperance and headed several plebiscites in the community to try to ban liquor. He failed [emoji482]
Looks like I found an older lock too but suggestions on how to clean it up are appreciated. The last lock I tried electrolysis on didn?t fair well.
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