407floyd
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I hope everyone still has all their appendages after the 4th. Spent all weekend at one of my favorite areas. It never disappoints, but the wet weather was a challenge. All my equipment was covered with mud all of the time. The rain did wash up bottles, buttons, and marbles though.The blue bottle is Emerson Drug Co. Bromoseltzer. The brown is Sharp & Dohme from Baltimore. Most everything is from curb strips. The oldest silver is probably the dateless Standing Liberty, otherwise a 1926 Merc. The nickels didn't fare well in this soil. Both Buffalos are dateless. The Vs are 1892, 1893, 1894, and dateless. IH is 1906. Out of 75 wheats there's a 1933D, 1937D, 1938D, 1927D, and 1916D. They date back to 1910. Got a Ford Model T key(1919-1927) and ignition bridge. A Police button (Superior Quality), and a key fob from Great American Registry Bureau at 19 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago. The YMCA had a building at that location for 100 years. Many objects came out of the ground in unrecognizable clumps of extremely hardened soil similar to the large brooch above the silver coins. You can see the blue jewel stuck sideways in the clump. The police button and Harry's bar token took some serious work to uncover. Soaked the token for days and still had to use a tiny brass chisel to scrape the remaining crust. Turned out better than expected. Now I have to do the research to find where it came from: nothing on the reverse. The knife looks to be a stag handled Texas Toothpick. I have more to post from before this weekend.
