paleomaxx
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Started a new permission this weekend that I'd been hoping to work on for awhile now. The house is a classic colonial and the yard has never been hunted before. I spent some time just talking with the owner who is very much into history as well and we swapped all sorts of stories. He also showed me the lot next to his house and it's completely invisible from the road, but there's the unmistakable outline of a colonial cellar stone foundation with no cellar hole!
That one might be next on the hunting list, but for now I worked on his yard. It quickly became clear that about two thirds of the yard was trash pits of some age or another. One corner was older with oyster shells and pottery, while other parts were newer with aluminum fragments. It'll take some time to clear those, but I did have a good start despite the trash signals.
One of the first finds was this fragment of silver-plate:
It says "Richfield Plate Co" "Quadruple" and the stamped number is 18. The company seems sort of obscure and I guess they were a subsidiary of Homan manufacturing. I was hoping to date it, especially if the "18" is a serial number stamp.
There’s only one token catalogue online that has these listed and information is scarce, but Harry Simmons started out as a furniture auctioneer house in the late 1800’s and at some point branched into more of a department store type operation by the 1920’s. The token depicts the PN-1 Navy flying boat which in 1925 (unsuccessfully) attempted the first non-stop flight from California to Hawaii. There was a large amount of publicity around the event so the token was probably issued right around then to take advantage of the public interest. Despite being somewhat recent it looks like these tokens faded into obscurity fairly quickly.
There was one large cent, a matron head, but I couldn't bring the date out. There were also eight wheat pennies ranging from 1923-1946. A cute little batwing buckle with the iron tongue still intact was a nice older relic and the standard harmonica reed/mason jar lid rounded out the day. The token was exciting though and hopefully there will be more to come!
That one might be next on the hunting list, but for now I worked on his yard. It quickly became clear that about two thirds of the yard was trash pits of some age or another. One corner was older with oyster shells and pottery, while other parts were newer with aluminum fragments. It'll take some time to clear those, but I did have a good start despite the trash signals.
One of the first finds was this fragment of silver-plate:
It says "Richfield Plate Co" "Quadruple" and the stamped number is 18. The company seems sort of obscure and I guess they were a subsidiary of Homan manufacturing. I was hoping to date it, especially if the "18" is a serial number stamp.
There’s only one token catalogue online that has these listed and information is scarce, but Harry Simmons started out as a furniture auctioneer house in the late 1800’s and at some point branched into more of a department store type operation by the 1920’s. The token depicts the PN-1 Navy flying boat which in 1925 (unsuccessfully) attempted the first non-stop flight from California to Hawaii. There was a large amount of publicity around the event so the token was probably issued right around then to take advantage of the public interest. Despite being somewhat recent it looks like these tokens faded into obscurity fairly quickly.
There was one large cent, a matron head, but I couldn't bring the date out. There were also eight wheat pennies ranging from 1923-1946. A cute little batwing buckle with the iron tongue still intact was a nice older relic and the standard harmonica reed/mason jar lid rounded out the day. The token was exciting though and hopefully there will be more to come!
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