Saturdays hunt :cam:

[norton4]

Well, Saturday morning we decided to head up to my grandparents house. There's tons of history up there. Their neighbors house was the main building of a plantation, however the people who currently live there wont let me detect. Guess I'll have to see if they ever sell it then ask the people who buy it. However most of the rest of the land that was once part of the plantation is now owned by a good friend of my grandparents and he doesn't mind me going out there. The first thing you see on his land is an old cabin, I love going there with my detector because it always gives up more finds, but no coins yet. when the bees leave I'm going to remove the floor boards (they aren't fastened down) and see if anyone dropped some coins. If you keep walking past the cabin there are foundations, cellar holes, chimneys, and car frames all over the hills. They call it Martin town. From what I've been told these were the houses of the slaves and were still used until the fifties when a forest fire came through and destroyed all but that one cabin. I haven't searched much of these but where I have been there's tons of metal from the roofs. If I picked it all up from all the sites I could easily get $100 or more worth of metal. So after I got annoyed with all the roofing I went back down to the cabin. These are my finds from there. They are next to a quarter for size comparison. the button isn't military or anything, just a button. I have no idea on the leaf thing or the jar, but they're interesting.

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Anyone know anything about this? I think its a broach.

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heres the back

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[General Ray]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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[Magyar]

what a terrific find! I sure wish I could be hunting on a former plantation site..intriguing .
the leaf item could be a pin for a woman's clothing.

That jar has some inscription....would you post, please what the writing is on the jar....I think it might be some kind of facial cream jar...not sure

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[norton4]

well its acually some design, not words. Maybe you can see it better here.

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the bottom has a 9, woodbury, a 17 and some symbol that looks like a C through the vertical part of an L.

 

[Magyar]

I'm almost certain that the jar is a vintage "Pond's Woodbury " cold cream milk glass jar.

I'm dating myself here, but I do remember the name "woodbury" connected with cold cream that my mother used to use and it came in that style jar...now the cold cream jars are all plastic... I typed in "woodbury white jar" and found a pic of this on e-bay...check it out if you get a chance...and let me know if you happen to agree.

 

[norton4]

thanks magyar, i do believe that is it.