Don in SJ
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- May 20, 2005
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Yesterday, I kind of hit a tree a bit too hard with my stock coil, it has taken a beating over the past 7+ years (since Dec 2000) and epoxy was used once and I guess I will have to do it again. But, I went out today with the ML 8 inch coil installed and that combo is deadly on small items.
I got very few readings to dig today but at least came home with two small finds. A cufflink and a small cuffsized button.
The cufflink is neat, since it is my first one with glass and under the glass is what l will call a white snowflake. I believe this is from around 1800 time frame.
The flat button turned out to be a mystery button, I posted on the What is it forum a few minutes ago. It does pay to clean your old buttons, it looked plain with no backmark until I cleaned it in peroxide and some good rubbing with cotton swabs. Then I thought I saw some gilt so I used a bit of lemon juice and cotton swabs and yes, it had some gilt left plus a design!
I have been stymied for coins this month, but my son is more than making up for my lack of coins, he got a 1736 KGII today and what appears to be another French Liard of unknown date, and some tombac buttons, musketball and part of an old spoon. So at least one of us is still doing good on coins, this seems to be a relic year for me so far.
Don
I got very few readings to dig today but at least came home with two small finds. A cufflink and a small cuffsized button.
The cufflink is neat, since it is my first one with glass and under the glass is what l will call a white snowflake. I believe this is from around 1800 time frame.
The flat button turned out to be a mystery button, I posted on the What is it forum a few minutes ago. It does pay to clean your old buttons, it looked plain with no backmark until I cleaned it in peroxide and some good rubbing with cotton swabs. Then I thought I saw some gilt so I used a bit of lemon juice and cotton swabs and yes, it had some gilt left plus a design!
I have been stymied for coins this month, but my son is more than making up for my lack of coins, he got a 1736 KGII today and what appears to be another French Liard of unknown date, and some tombac buttons, musketball and part of an old spoon. So at least one of us is still doing good on coins, this seems to be a relic year for me so far.
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