Two Firsts and a Neat Button...need ID Help Please.

[Nana40]

I started off with a very slow week of finds. Tuesday was relic hunting day and I didn't have very much to show for the effort of crawling through the briars except scratched up arms and bits of twigs in my hair. :P Decided to go to the park yesterday and see if the regular had cleaned it out yet. It was sooo windy and quite chilly but I was determined to stay till I got a keeper. After digging several pieces of regular change in the pebbles I decided I would go over to the sand lot and give it a once over. First beep from there and I found my first ever CC token! I was so excited over this silly little token and my next beep turns out to be another! Satisfied with my two little tokens, I leave.

Today I went to a new spot that my hunting buddy Terri had lined up. 8)

Terri on the left, Lisa on the right...and yeah...your hair looks fine, Lisa!

A well in the middle of a pasture! This is more like it! So much easier to hunt here!! 8) Beautiful weather today too!

I ended up with a few keeper relics...no coins today. I hit a patch of some kind of musical thingy's? Stayed in the 10 X 10 area till I got tired of diggin' 'em. Found two miner's tags, one with a name stamped on it. My favorite find of the day was the button. The back markings are Browning King & Co. The front looks like UN CO? I don't have clue what the initials stand for, so if anyone can help ID it, I'd be soooo happy.

Have a great weekend and find something good!!!!!

Nana

 

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[birdman]

Good stuff as always Nana, We have snow and ice here in ND, sure due miss the weather down in good ol LA .(Lower Alabama)

 

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[cosmic]

Very cool finds!! Looks like you all had fun... I beleive most of the reeds found are not that of a organ , but a concertina or accordian which is portable and almost as popular among soldiers and travelers as the harmonicas.. I have quite a few reeds from places there wouldn't be a organ anywhere around..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:English_Concertina.jpg

 

[ivan salis]

I agree the smaller highly portible accordion was a highly popular musical item "back in the day" and those are sized just about the right size to be from one -- of course the reeds for both organ and the accordions would be very similar (they both make sounds by the air passing thru the reeds) but the organ reeds would be rather larger normally. --- Ivan

 

[Burdie]

Hey Nana save some good stuff for me this summer. Great looking huntin crew you have there. Congrats on those finds.
When you got something like this to play with I am not interested in detecting. Iife is good when you have a matching bag with your name on it.

 

[nealb]

Nice finds, Nana! Gotta love CC tokens. I've found 1 so far. Makes ya feel like a kid. Looks like you have a good hunting crew there.

HH
Neal

 

[Natman]

The Nanster strikes again! Nice finds Nana, I have some CC tokens and have also found several Show Biz Pizza (pre CC) tokens some years ago.

Great pics of autumn in 'bama too!

Nat

 

[Nana40]

Thanks ya'll!

TW...NOOOOO!!! Charlie would get me for sure!

R_R...There's a well in the pasture and assume that a house was there back in the day.

Lisa....Thanks. :P Really..thanks for the info!!!

Fisher...Thanks!!

Neb....Thanks for the info!

MM....

EDDE......

Noodle....Thank ya! Ya'll have a safe trip.

Nicky...yeah....even without that strawberry cheesecake. Thank you.

ME..... For some reason, I don't see many 'hoodlums' in the country. And if those maps are in my area....SEND "EM!

Cosmic...Thanks for the info and the link! Neat!~

Burdie....She's just as pretty as her Mom! Gotta have that matching bag, ya know!

Lisa sent me some new info on the miner's tag. The 'S I & S CO' that is stamped on the tag is for 'Sloss Iron & Steel Company'. She sent me a link with the dates this particular company was in use. Looks like it ran from 1887-1899, then changed the name. Sloss is/was a big name company in Birmingham and I have been by there many times over the years. Thanks Lisa!
http://www.sloss.com/slossHistory.asp

Thanks again, ya'll! Nana

 

[Merf]

Nice finds Nana---A chuckie cheese token is still on my wish list.

 

[tsgman]

Beautiful photo's and finds Nana, good luck on the button ID.