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Still visiting a block long set of wide curb strips from one of the older neighborhoods in town going back to 1901.
Scoured to death by hunters since detectors were invented, a friend that has lived across the street since 1971 says he has seen legions of detectorists from the local club hunting these things since he moved in and they did a pretty good job of draining any silver and most other high tone targets so considered hunted out now...but not to me.
Still a few high tone signals here that aren't cans or rusted large iron and lots of lower tone signals still in play.
Nice black dirt on top for a few inches, thick red clay underneath and masking iron and trash everywhere....exactly the kind of place I love to hunt, what is life without challenges?
Been wandering for the first few hunts but now I am starting to swing closer and overlap more, good things are still showing up.
Silver, old nickels or wheats and Indian heads is the goal, other cool stuff is welcomed in the meantime.
Here is my collection of different metals from my last hunt.
A freakin' 50 cal brass casing from the St. Louis Ordinance Plant made in 1944.
Had to be a souvenir brought back by a soldier and then lost after the war, I doubt that anyone was hunting in this area with a gun like that.
Gonna tumble it and get it looking good because it is the biggest casing I have found so far.
A heavy brass wire/cable connector...the nut still spins and this can be put back into service today if I still worked as an electrician.
A copper cap off some copper pipe...added to the scrap copper pile.
A swivel cover from an old cap gun in great shape so not sure it is actually pot metal.
Looked for the rest of the gun in the area but no luck.
Next to the casing my favorite find was the Westclox Wrist Ben watch...a solid 51 which is a common can slaw signal but could have been big gold just as easily.
This one was manufactured in either 1950, 51, 52 or 54....they marked them different in 1953 and added the words Wrist Ben for that year only.
In 55 they changed them to the more popular round shape.
A cheap watch made for the masses, mine is the white dial version but they were made in black too and an interesting rumor about that black one on the vintage watch forums....
This is thought to be the very watch James Dean selected to wear for his character in Rebel Without a Cause because it fit and he was a fan of black dial, black leather band watches.
Always fun to find a little interesting backhistory about any find...as mundane as they may be.
The search for the still ever elusive Barber coin continues...
Scoured to death by hunters since detectors were invented, a friend that has lived across the street since 1971 says he has seen legions of detectorists from the local club hunting these things since he moved in and they did a pretty good job of draining any silver and most other high tone targets so considered hunted out now...but not to me.
Still a few high tone signals here that aren't cans or rusted large iron and lots of lower tone signals still in play.
Nice black dirt on top for a few inches, thick red clay underneath and masking iron and trash everywhere....exactly the kind of place I love to hunt, what is life without challenges?
Been wandering for the first few hunts but now I am starting to swing closer and overlap more, good things are still showing up.
Silver, old nickels or wheats and Indian heads is the goal, other cool stuff is welcomed in the meantime.
Here is my collection of different metals from my last hunt.
A freakin' 50 cal brass casing from the St. Louis Ordinance Plant made in 1944.
Had to be a souvenir brought back by a soldier and then lost after the war, I doubt that anyone was hunting in this area with a gun like that.
Gonna tumble it and get it looking good because it is the biggest casing I have found so far.
A heavy brass wire/cable connector...the nut still spins and this can be put back into service today if I still worked as an electrician.
A copper cap off some copper pipe...added to the scrap copper pile.
A swivel cover from an old cap gun in great shape so not sure it is actually pot metal.
Looked for the rest of the gun in the area but no luck.
Next to the casing my favorite find was the Westclox Wrist Ben watch...a solid 51 which is a common can slaw signal but could have been big gold just as easily.
This one was manufactured in either 1950, 51, 52 or 54....they marked them different in 1953 and added the words Wrist Ben for that year only.
In 55 they changed them to the more popular round shape.
A cheap watch made for the masses, mine is the white dial version but they were made in black too and an interesting rumor about that black one on the vintage watch forums....
This is thought to be the very watch James Dean selected to wear for his character in Rebel Without a Cause because it fit and he was a fan of black dial, black leather band watches.
Always fun to find a little interesting backhistory about any find...as mundane as they may be.
The search for the still ever elusive Barber coin continues...