Yesterdays relic recoveries

[Steve in PA]

Yesterday's relic recoveries

Managed to get out yesterday and take advantage of the warm weather in Southwestern PA. Nobody answered the door at my plan A, so I moved on to plan B which was only a few miles away. I was looking forward to giving my new XP Deus a chance to see if it could pluck any buttons out of this site, which has produced over 150 buttons, including about a dozen military buttons from the War of 1812 to the Civil War. The vast majority of these buttons have been plain flat buttons, which is why finding three flower buttons and no flat buttons was highly unusual yesterday. I also got a nice suspender clip with a patent number on it. The patent number looks like 7691, but when I look at that patent on Patent database, it is for something else. I found two coal tags that read “E. Sova Hermine Penna”. I spent 3 hours using the Deus and 1.5 hours using the F75.




I may be able to expose more gilt on the third button. Going try some jelly tonight.


I found this button a few years aga at the same site. It matches the one above on the right.





This suspender clip was in the same hole as one of the buttons above. I had to remove two bricks and a large rock to get to them.



These tags say "E. Sova Hermine, Penna". I tried to search for his name and came up with a Thomas Sova that lived in Hermine 1889-1940.

 

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[trapperart]

Congrats on some great finds

 

[joeyfresh]

Great finds Steve. I'm going to keep an eye on your posts to see how you're coming along with the Deus...

 

[VOL1266-X]

Now Steve, that's pretty cool to find 2 nice gold gilted matching flower buttons a good while apart. You had a good hunt Bud. WTG, Q.

 

[relic nut]

Great hunt. Love the relics

HH, Relic Nut

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the many interesting relic finds!

 

[Vino]

Good finds Steve,
I found the same flower button couple of years ago. Before I cleaned it I thought it was a palmetto tree button. Lol
Oh by the way you will love the Deus, stay away from pitch. It will just drive you crazy right now. Learn the tones!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Looks like a relic hunters dream hunt. Congrats on all those cool finds. Even though I am a coin shooter, I'd like a hunt that produced those digs.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Well,well well it looks like all the boys are sniffing out the sites with this weather
That is a different kind of suspender buckle for sure..Never seen them like that out this way.Nice variety there Stevie boy..

~Blaze

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Great hunt Steve! The Deus and F75 are a great combination. Glad you were able to pick some more keepers out of there. I bet that matching button cleans up nice with the jelly. Cool that you found them years apart there. I really like that suspender buckle too. Nice hunt.

 

[Dylan Phillips]

Nice finds

 

[relic lover]

Nice group of relics. Whenever I switched to Minelab 2 piece buttons started to seemingly magically start popping up all over my previously hunted sites. I guess they just did not sound that good on my old detector not like they were deep or anything.

 

[Old Dude]

Yesterday's relic recoveries

Great finds Steve! The clip reminds me of one I found ( hope you don't mind if I post a pic for comparison?). Yours looks older though. What age do you think yours is?



I also found a match to your grape cluster button. Isn't that your second one?
Congrats!

 

[Steve in PA]

Great finds Steve! The clip reminds me of one I found ( hope you don't mind if I post a pic for comparison?). Yours looks older though. What age do you think yours is?

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I also found a match to your grape cluster button. Isn't that your second one?
Congrats!

I think my suspender buckle is 1850s to 1870s. I have found about 20 suspender buckles at this spot.

 

[Steve in PA]

Great hunt Steve! The Deus and F75 are a great combination. Glad you were able to pick some more keepers out of there. I bet that matching button cleans up nice with the jelly. Cool that you found them years apart there. I really like that suspender buckle too. Nice hunt.

I put some jelly on the button. I could probably take it a little further.

 

[A2coins]

nice I bet theres lots more goodies to be found.