You CAN find old stuff in Florida!

[JackInFlorida]

There is a spot that I have been going to every few months for the past year. I have another post with a silver spoon from early 1900's that I found there. I know there is history there.

Today I was digging up the usual plethora of pop tops and fishing weights. I had one hole that had 5 targets in it. 4 pop tops and this medallion. I couldn't read it, knew it looked copper, so didn't worry about it until I got home. After rinsing, I still couldn't read it. My lovely bride had the idea of doing some rubbings of it and we could read a couple of words and the year 1889.





With the rubbings, I did some searching and found that this was a Medallion Awarded to NJ Schloss & Co. at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 (When the Eiffel Tower was built).






I found an exact picture of the medallion on this coin dealer site:

http://www.lioncoins.com/frames/ribbon.htm

For all those people that ask "What are you looking for?" Well, this is a pretty good example.

Jack

 

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[G.I.B.]

Pretty darn cool. I like the rubbing idea.

Congrats on the nice finds.

 

[Brett2259]

cool stuff!!

 

[Patrol]

Nice find Jack! Haven't been out much lately, we have been away on vacation - sounds odd, when I'm retired. Anyway Conny and I just hit the beaches in Daytona and Flagler this week and we are $10 ahead even after the $10 parking fine in Daytona. Damn parking meters. The summer season has returned and so have the finds.

Went to Europe this spring and I got the "shakes" looking at those ruins and digs - no detector and spending time in a Turkish prison doesn't sound like fun.

Hope to see you out there.

Tom & Conny

 

[BobInFla]

If you have photo editing software you can take a photo of your finds and convert them to grey scale. Doing so helps make the inscriptions on them stand out much more clearly. colors seem to confuse the eye sometimes.

 

[Bum Luck]

If you have photo editing software you can take a photo of your finds and convert them to grey scale. Doing so helps make the inscriptions on them stand out much more clearly. colors seem to confuse the eye sometimes.

Yep. works well.

 

[KLGourley]

The rubbing idea is genius! I'll have to remember that. The greyscale conversion is a cool idead too.

 

[chkn]

That is amazing!!!

 

[debuck03]

Nice Find!!

 

[glenn63]

That's a watch fob right. I didn't see anybody mention it here but that's exactly what it looks like to me.