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So I went back to Birmingham for Christmas and had a few end of the year hunts with a friend in slightly warmer weather then my current snow and cold we have in Kansas at the moment.
I took the Compadre since I used it for most of December looking for anything cool I could find but especially jewelry.
These finds were from some curb hunts in my mother in law's neighborhood, 1920's, an old park in her neighborhood and a large scout camp that also used to be a plantation back in the day.
The scout camp was huge and we didn't find any old relics, but I did manage to find a square nail that looks like it was made last week, and that zinc boat, destroyer thing that I thought was pretty cool.
I also found 4 different keys that maintenance workers had lost over the years that still fit locks to the maintenance sheds on the property and that the head ranger was thrilled to get back when I returned them to him.
In the same pic as the square nail is a reed from an old squeezebox or accordion that was found in the old park.
The 2010 Superbowl key fob was found in the curb strips as was Sacajawea dollar and my first Susan B. Anthony dollar.
Also found in those strips was that very cool lucky penny with an almost mint looking 1948 wheatie in the middle that looked like it was taken from the famous Stork Club in New York in 1949, brought to Birmingham and promptly lost when someone reached into their pocket standing on this strip.
Alas, as I was showing it to my hunting partner I transferred it to another pocket so it wouldn't get scratched up and somehow lost the blasted thing!
My hunting buddy and I looked for it and he knows the area I lost it so he will go back and look for it in the future for me, (nice guy!), but for now it is gone and I am glad I have at least a couple of nice pictures of the thing.
After I got all upset about losing that lucky token we moved into the old park to an area where I had found my oldest coin ever about 1 1/2 years ago which was a 1906 Indian.
I guess luck was still with me a little that day because along with a bunch of tabs that also came in as zinc I managed to dig up my oldest coin ever to date and the one that finally got me into the 1800's...another Indian penny this time the year was 1880!
That made me feel a little better after losing that cool Stork Club token.
Came back home after the first to temps in the 20's, snow and a pretty nice cold that I have been fighting for the last week.
Hopefully it will warm up a bit and if we are lucky the ground won't freeze like last year's winter, but in case it does I finished out my record breaking year in a great way and should hold me over till the spring thaw...I hope.
HH
I took the Compadre since I used it for most of December looking for anything cool I could find but especially jewelry.
These finds were from some curb hunts in my mother in law's neighborhood, 1920's, an old park in her neighborhood and a large scout camp that also used to be a plantation back in the day.
The scout camp was huge and we didn't find any old relics, but I did manage to find a square nail that looks like it was made last week, and that zinc boat, destroyer thing that I thought was pretty cool.
I also found 4 different keys that maintenance workers had lost over the years that still fit locks to the maintenance sheds on the property and that the head ranger was thrilled to get back when I returned them to him.
In the same pic as the square nail is a reed from an old squeezebox or accordion that was found in the old park.
The 2010 Superbowl key fob was found in the curb strips as was Sacajawea dollar and my first Susan B. Anthony dollar.
Also found in those strips was that very cool lucky penny with an almost mint looking 1948 wheatie in the middle that looked like it was taken from the famous Stork Club in New York in 1949, brought to Birmingham and promptly lost when someone reached into their pocket standing on this strip.
Alas, as I was showing it to my hunting partner I transferred it to another pocket so it wouldn't get scratched up and somehow lost the blasted thing!
My hunting buddy and I looked for it and he knows the area I lost it so he will go back and look for it in the future for me, (nice guy!), but for now it is gone and I am glad I have at least a couple of nice pictures of the thing.
After I got all upset about losing that lucky token we moved into the old park to an area where I had found my oldest coin ever about 1 1/2 years ago which was a 1906 Indian.
I guess luck was still with me a little that day because along with a bunch of tabs that also came in as zinc I managed to dig up my oldest coin ever to date and the one that finally got me into the 1800's...another Indian penny this time the year was 1880!
That made me feel a little better after losing that cool Stork Club token.
Came back home after the first to temps in the 20's, snow and a pretty nice cold that I have been fighting for the last week.
Hopefully it will warm up a bit and if we are lucky the ground won't freeze like last year's winter, but in case it does I finished out my record breaking year in a great way and should hold me over till the spring thaw...I hope.
HH
