Three Firsts in One Hole!!

[dkw]

I hit a couple of spots today. The first one gave up a couple of wheats '19 and '35, the brass heart buckle cover (or bedroll buckle) depending on which side of the argument you listen to, and the piece of flat lead wrapped around a copper wire. Any ideas on that one?


The second is a house across the pasture from me. I'd hit it before but not very thoroughly. It gave me the obligatory clad.


And then my first silver coin, first buffalo nickel and first multi-coin hole. About 8 inches down.
No date Buffalo, 1942 S nickel, 1948 nickel, and four wheats '32,'44,'45,'47.


All in all not a bad day out.

 

[ghostrider1775]

Nice finds !!!! WTG

 

[dkw]

Very cool finds. What is the coin with date of Jan. 23rd on it? I had to ask considering that is my birthday.

Guess I forgot to ID that one. It's not a coin. I'm not sure what it's made of but it read like a tab. It reads
AERMURL
pat
Jan. 23, 1912
Aug 20, 1912
U.S.A.

Google only gave me one hit. Apparently it's the end cap off of an exhaust whistle for an old car.

 

[Master Sarge]

Nice Finds!!!

 

[coolcash2004]

NICE!

-CC

 

[Skrimpy]

I'm positive that it's lead wrapped around copper. My best guess was a homemade fishing weight. There is a decent creek about 200 yards from the homesite. The lead is pretty oxidized. How long does it take for lead to start turning white?

You want to see a really old fishing weight? I got a couple from a mill we hit pretty hard last summer. Let me get the camera and I will post em...Ive heard these kind can be worth quite a bit but I am skeptical. They are just hunks of irregular shaped lead with a hole drilled in them for the cat gut fishing string...I will give them their own thread

 

[whitesid]

cool finds

 

[Eddy1H]

Neet buckle, and congrats on your finds

Eddy

 

[sonny0065]

Good finds. WTG HH Sonny

 

[The Seeker]

Congrats on some nice finds. The Heart Buckle in different......I have not seen many of those! Nice........

 

[Southcacalaky]

Wtg HH Art...

 

[hollowpointred]

very very nice!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'm positive that it's lead wrapped around copper. My best guess was a homemade fishing weight. There is a decent creek about 200 yards from the homesite. The lead is pretty oxidized. How long does it take for lead to start turning white?

Not long. I've shot on a hill behind my last house in the same spot for 25 years. I'd dig out the lead occasionally for re-casting into fresh balls (muzzleloaders). It two years the lead is mostly covered. In five years it looks as oxidized as the images I see of some CW finds.

The lead wrapped copper wire could be a home-made minnow net weight, a messenger (used to drop lines into pipes to pull wires through), a fishing weight, sewn into the hems of heavy curtains to make them hang straight, Lord knows what all. Homespun engineers are pretty resourceful.