Ronstar
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We went out to our favorite campground for this years first camping, of course the ATV and Legend went camping too. Lol. This campground started out life as a 1928 rail based logging camp and eventually was turned into a USFS campground.
Most of the coins out in the meadow so far have been clad, no silver, one 1924 wheat, but a fair amount of relics. An in pieces pocket watch, an in pieces two man crosscut saw, a 1929 Idaho license plate in poor condition, a few 30s tin cans, and well you get the picture. A few years ago the camp hosts found a tobacco can dump with a bunch of Prince Albert pocket cans, some with most of the paint still on them! (Every time we go out there someone is in that space and I cant go in to get up the hill just behind, someday.)
This outing I hit a deep dime signal and it was solid so I got a little excited. Dug to the 7” deep realm and the Garrett was screaming I was there!!! I carefully dug and located two metal shirt buttons stacked together. Looks to be either heavy coated paint or enameled and dark gray. Just next to them was a shard of pottery/dish/bowl with a pinkish red ribbon design, the edge is at least 1/4” thick. Pretty sure this matches up with the 1928 to late 30s existence of the camp and continues to give glimpses of what life was like.
Someday maybe I’ll find a silver but do I care? BTW, my avatar is a ring I found near the large picnic area with my F5 some 10 years ago, antique jeweler advises most likely late 30s to mid 40s. Both 10k and Sterling stamped with synthetic stone.(Additional: In the one good clear photo you can clearly see in Roman Numerals XIX on both sides, jeweler leans against this as a class ring but can not entirely rule it out either….)
Most of the coins out in the meadow so far have been clad, no silver, one 1924 wheat, but a fair amount of relics. An in pieces pocket watch, an in pieces two man crosscut saw, a 1929 Idaho license plate in poor condition, a few 30s tin cans, and well you get the picture. A few years ago the camp hosts found a tobacco can dump with a bunch of Prince Albert pocket cans, some with most of the paint still on them! (Every time we go out there someone is in that space and I cant go in to get up the hill just behind, someday.)
This outing I hit a deep dime signal and it was solid so I got a little excited. Dug to the 7” deep realm and the Garrett was screaming I was there!!! I carefully dug and located two metal shirt buttons stacked together. Looks to be either heavy coated paint or enameled and dark gray. Just next to them was a shard of pottery/dish/bowl with a pinkish red ribbon design, the edge is at least 1/4” thick. Pretty sure this matches up with the 1928 to late 30s existence of the camp and continues to give glimpses of what life was like.
Someday maybe I’ll find a silver but do I care? BTW, my avatar is a ring I found near the large picnic area with my F5 some 10 years ago, antique jeweler advises most likely late 30s to mid 40s. Both 10k and Sterling stamped with synthetic stone.(Additional: In the one good clear photo you can clearly see in Roman Numerals XIX on both sides, jeweler leans against this as a class ring but can not entirely rule it out either….)
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