Two LC’s and a Victorian Sash Buckle!

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Early yesterday morning I headed back to the R.S. McLaughlin hunting cabins in the woods. The foundations of these two cabins are located in the woods a mile walk up an old stage coach road. Late last fall I found the location of the well to the cabins and for the last 6 months I’ve been waiting for the ground to thaw to detect the area again. Here’s some background information behind the former owner of these two hunting cabins…

Robert Samuel McLaughlin
"Robert Samuel McLaughlin, industrialist (born at Enniskillen, Ontario 8 Sept 1871; died at Oshawa, ON 6 Jan 1972). After a 3-year apprenticeship in the carriage business owned by his father, Robert McLaughlin, and work in similar establishments in New York, McLaughlin entered into partnership with his father and his brother George in the McLaughlin Carriage Works, Oshawa (1892). When fire destroyed the company's Oshawa factory (1899), 15 municipalities offered financial assistance for relocation near them, but the company stayed in Oshawa, in return for a $50 000 loan repayable "as convenient." In 1908 McLaughlin began producing Buick car bodies for William Durant, owner of the Buick Motor Co in Flint, Michigan. When Durant moved on to Chevrolets, McLaughlin began producing them too (1915). The business was purchased by General Motors in 1918, and incorporated as GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA, with McLaughlin as president."

Unfortunately, after detecting around the well, the edges of the road/pathway and the hill behind the well, all I had to show for my efforts was a handful of beer caps and shotgun shells. I then headed to an old homestead site permission from last year that has produced little more then an LC and a Merchant Navy anchor button. After spending an hour here, all I found was a bunch of iron pieces and a large horseshoe. The last site I headed back to a site I’ve been detecting since the spring of 2016 and is slated for residential development this summer. Here I found two more LC’s dated 1909 & 1912, a bent up thick, silver plated ladies Victorian Sash Buckle, a porcelain dolls head and a small horse shoe. With some gentle manipulation and hammering I was able to straighten out the sash buckle. I’ve also included pics of the bar horse shoe and the two axe heads I found the previous weekend. I have pictured here the sites, the order that I detected them and the finds that were made on each site.

Thanks very much for looking!
Dave

 

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[ToddsPoint]

Nice finds. I like your pics that show the location of the old cabins and house. Gary

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, nice pictures and finds. That sash buckle came out nice after you straightened it.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice old relics and a couple of nice coins. Love the pictures too. Congratulations.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice assortment of finds ANTIQUARIAN. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Carolina Tom]

Great post, as usual.

You did a great job straightening that sash buckle. I always break the stuff, when I try to fix it.

Good luck to you sir.

 

[Tpmetal]

Love the canadian largies, they seem to survive so well in most soil types.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds with lots of photos! Thank you for sharing!

 

[rickb2202]

Nice finds!! Maybe after you clear the iron the well site will pay off. Congrats

 

[treblehunter]

Carolina Tom wrote exactly what I was going to write. Nice post, nice photos and nice job straightening out that sash buckle.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Nice finds. I like your pics that show the location of the old cabins and house. Gary

Thanks very much for your post Todd.
I feel that it's important to show what remains of these sites.
Dave

Hi, nice pictures and finds. That sash buckle came out nice after you straightened it.

Thank you Brendan.
The buckle really surprised me at how easy it was to manipulate without breaking.
Dave

Nice old relics and a couple of nice coins. Love the pictures too. Congratulations.

Thanks Hawk, a picture says a thousand words and I don't have enough time to write that much.
Dave

Nice assortment of finds ANTIQUARIAN. Thanks for sharing...

Thank you for your post Sir!
Best of luck to you,
Dave

Great post, as usual.

You did a great job straightening that sash buckle. I always break the stuff, when I try to fix it.

Good luck to you sir.

Thank you as always for your support Tom.
As you well know, sometimes we get lucky when we do our own restorations... but most times I break it!
Dave

Love the canadian largies, they seem to survive so well in most soil types.

Thank you for your post TP.
For some reason I find that Canadian LC's dated pre-1911 stand up better than post-1912 pennies.
Here's a brief history of our Canadian pennies development...

"The first Canadian cent was minted in 1858 and had a diameter of 1" and a weight of 0.160 oz. These cents were originally issued to bring some kind of order to the Canadian monetary system, which, until 1858, relied on British coinage, bank and commercial tokens, U.S. currency and Spanish milled dollars. The coin's specifications were chosen with the intention of the coins also being useful as measuring tools. However, their light weight compared to the bank and merchant halfpenny tokens readily available at the time was a serious hindrance to their acceptance by the public. Some of the coins were even sold at a 20% discount and were inherited by the Dominion government in 1867. Fresh production of new cents (with the weight increased to 0.200 oz was not required until 1876. The large cents of 1858—1920 were significantly larger than modern one cent coins, having a diameter of 1 inch, which is slightly larger than the modern 25¢ piece. After the Canadian Confederation, these coins were struck on the planchet of the British Half Penny and were roughly the same value. Pennies were issued sporadically in the third quarter of the 19th century. They were used in the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia upon Confederation in 1867. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia had issued their own coinage prior to that date, with British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland continuing to issue "pennies" until they joined Confederation. The coin was reduced in size to its current size in 1920 to match the size of the American penny.

On March 29, 2012, the Canadian federal government announced in its budget that it would withdraw the penny from circulation in the fall of 2012. The budget announcement eliminating the penny cited the cost of producing it at 1.6 cents. The final penny was minted at the RCM's Winnipeg, Manitoba plant on the morning of May 4, 2012. Existing pennies will remain legal tender indefinitely; however, pennies were withdrawn from circulation on February 4, 2013. Only pennies produced in 1982 or later are still legally "Circulation Coins". Cash transactions are now rounded to the nearest 5¢."

Best of luck to you,
Dave

Nice finds with lots of photos! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you Professor, I always appreciate your support!

Nice finds!! Maybe after you clear the iron the well site will pay off. Congrats

Thank you for posting Rick.
I've been detecting this site since the spring of 2016, so I'm pretty sure that I've squeezed out everything this site has to give.

Best of luck to you sir,
Dave

Carolina Tom wrote exactly what I was going to write. Nice post, nice photos and nice job straightening out that sash buckle.

Thanks for your post and support Brad!
Hope you're having another great year,
Dave

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Very nice sash buckle. The 2 LC's are in great shape, nice crisp details.
Congrats on a good hunt.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very nice sash buckle. The 2 LC's are in great shape, nice crisp details.
Congrats on a good hunt.

Thank you as always for your kind words MsBB.
Yesterday I headed back to the same site for 2 hrs and this morning I'm going to put in another 4 hours.

I'll have some cool finds to post tonight or tomorrow, as today is the Victoria Day Holiday here in Canada.

Thanks very much for your interest,
Dave