Old watch movement yesterday, today a half...

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Yesterday spent more time at the park down the block that is old and found this movement.
I have found some complete watches before but also just movements with no cases which I find weird.
Wonder where those cases got to.
Scrubbed it till I could read some letters and it appears to say Chicago with a "W" in fancy script and then Co.
Probably the Chicago Watch Co. which existed from 1895-1903 and supposedly resold watches made by Waltham, Illinois, and New York Standard.
Also mentioned they dabbled in Swiss fakes and sold legitimate watches by mail, too.
I bet this is one of the mailorder pieces.
Has a number stamped in two places 6010, but can't really track a date down with this company because there are no records.
Early 1900's at the latest and also found a 1911 wheatie there a few days ago so I am happy and good to know the area I am hunting has some older history still hiding.

Went back to that same site this morning and found a few modern coins and a harmonica reed.
I found a way to find better targets in this trash heap but it can get tiring so I took off and scouted some curb strips.
I now live in an old part of Birmingham that has blocks and blocks of old homes built going back to between 1901 and 1940.
Curb strips in front of every one, too.
Looking forward to slowly hunting these as time goes on, the first one I tried today was hiding this 77 Kennedy so I am pumped.
Hope to find some cool older stuff eventually.

 

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Nice to be able to find the history on the watch. Hunting those curb sites,do you ask for permission? Around here in pa. there are quite a few.I have hit some that are not in front of the house's.-------after1---------

 

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Nope.
Just walk down the block an dig small holes.
They are city property so legal, but some people cut the lawn along with the part next to the house that they own so they might not like it if they think they own it.
I have not done this much but some and I have never been bothered accosted.
If that does ever happen I will not argue I will just move on.
Tons of these around here, no need to get bent out of shape over a few touchy muggles.

I have read posts from some hunters that specialize in hunting these things and do that more than any other type of hunting.

 

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Some of the most fun detecting came from curb hunting with MarkCZ, we used to go after we got off work in the around 1am. We hunted in the city and the curb between the sidewalk and street was city property. The people living in the home took care of them like it belong to them. We never had too many problems, we both hunted with a headband light with a mercury switch that would go off if you looked up and was only on when looking at the ground. We would hunt all night like this and sometime someone coming in from a club would spot you, then a few minutes later the city PD would roll by but most never a problem. One time I was retrieving a coin and because we were wearing headphones, a city police had pulled up to see what I was doing, I didn't know he was there. After I got to coin popped out I looked over and there he was watching kind of leaning out of his car. He smiled and said "find anything good?" I said yes and told him what the count was, he just smiled and went on.

Congratulations! Nice finds

 

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I forgot to say, one night I never got to hunt and MarkCZ went by himself. I ran Fire / EMS for 26 years and always listen to the police and fire calls in neighbouring cities and counties on the scanner as well as my own dispatch radio. I heard one police call about women out sweeping her sidewalk in the middle of the night in the rain..... I started laughing because I knew someone had called the police on MarkCZ, the next day when I got to work I couldn't wait to ask him if the police had came by, he said a couple cars did and I told him about the call was dispatched...