Bell-Two
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Stalking The Cornfields
Saturday afternoon we went out to try and find some home sites that were listed on a mid 1800’s map. The corn has just been freshly cut and so the spotting of the sites would not be easy. We found the first one but not much was found, a small plain button front and a couple of buckles were the only old finds. We then moved to an adjoining field which turned out more productive. The old map was pretty good on location and we found the brick and glass admidst the corn stalks. I found a very nice suspender buckle which has a patent date of 1850 on it and a watch piece that has the name M. T. Tobias which turns out to be a mid century watchmaker from Liverpool England.
Doug found a button with an interesting back mark, it says Treble Gilt and has the very old style “Chicken Eagle” on it.
Diane made the top finds, her first find was a lovely 1850 Braided Hair Large Cent, and then just ten feet further down the same row she gets a 12-38 signal on her E-Trac and out pops her second Large Cent a very toasty 1826 Matron Head.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=U0U7AW_Gu3Y&u=/watch%3Fv%3Dn35lWTCyGYE%26feature%3Dem-share_video_user[/video]
Saturday afternoon we went out to try and find some home sites that were listed on a mid 1800’s map. The corn has just been freshly cut and so the spotting of the sites would not be easy. We found the first one but not much was found, a small plain button front and a couple of buckles were the only old finds. We then moved to an adjoining field which turned out more productive. The old map was pretty good on location and we found the brick and glass admidst the corn stalks. I found a very nice suspender buckle which has a patent date of 1850 on it and a watch piece that has the name M. T. Tobias which turns out to be a mid century watchmaker from Liverpool England.
Doug found a button with an interesting back mark, it says Treble Gilt and has the very old style “Chicken Eagle” on it.
Diane made the top finds, her first find was a lovely 1850 Braided Hair Large Cent, and then just ten feet further down the same row she gets a 12-38 signal on her E-Trac and out pops her second Large Cent a very toasty 1826 Matron Head.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=U0U7AW_Gu3Y&u=/watch%3Fv%3Dn35lWTCyGYE%26feature%3Dem-share_video_user[/video]
