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In May, 2005, several of us from our local metal detector club met in Tonopah, Nevada to search for stuff in the old dump. It's a HUGE dump but no longer being used for trash. I got there at the same time as another club member and we set up our trailers on the edge of the dump itself. As the week progressed, more club members arrived and we had a great time, especially when we'd get together for dinner and show each other what we'd found. The Tonopah dump has been hunted hard by many people for many decades. The bottle hunters got all the good bottles years ago, but people with screens can sift the soil and sometimes find the small objects that the bottle diggers either didn't see or didn't want. So a sifting screen is a must-have if you go to Tonopah and dig the dump.
I made some little trips to various ghost towns and almost-ghost-towns in the vicinity of Tonopah and found a few interesting things. Didn't find anything terribly exciting and/or valuable but some of the other people down there did. There were people there that week from all over the country and some of those folks found old coins, watch fobs, tokens and all kinds of other interesting things.
Here's the first of my posts relating to that trip. I'll post one or two more threads with photos as I get the time.
The first photo is a clay marble I found at one of the sites. It was lying right on top of the ground and its paint was completely gone. When new, it was probably painted a primary background color (red, blue, yellow) with contrasting stripes.
The next photo is a nickel plated belt buckle. It was buried but remained in fairly good condition, probably due to the nickel plating. It's a small buckle and probably belonged to a young boy.
The 3rd photo is a small bottle that was found in a dump about 30 miles from Tonopah. This little 2 1/2" bottle has 10 sides (which can't be seen in the photo) and is turning a pale lavender. It's one of my favorites because of its size, shape, and color.
I made some little trips to various ghost towns and almost-ghost-towns in the vicinity of Tonopah and found a few interesting things. Didn't find anything terribly exciting and/or valuable but some of the other people down there did. There were people there that week from all over the country and some of those folks found old coins, watch fobs, tokens and all kinds of other interesting things.
Here's the first of my posts relating to that trip. I'll post one or two more threads with photos as I get the time.
The first photo is a clay marble I found at one of the sites. It was lying right on top of the ground and its paint was completely gone. When new, it was probably painted a primary background color (red, blue, yellow) with contrasting stripes.
The next photo is a nickel plated belt buckle. It was buried but remained in fairly good condition, probably due to the nickel plating. It's a small buckle and probably belonged to a young boy.
The 3rd photo is a small bottle that was found in a dump about 30 miles from Tonopah. This little 2 1/2" bottle has 10 sides (which can't be seen in the photo) and is turning a pale lavender. It's one of my favorites because of its size, shape, and color.
