Short Relic Hunt With The Equinox 800

[Randy Dee]

On 5/6/2018 at 1:47 AM, Cal_Cobra said:

Tom and I got out for a few hours after work yesterday to one of his "back-pocket" spots that's been well worked over the years.  It's getting stingy with targets, but I still managed to get a few keepers, including the oldest seated dime I've found, as my previous oldest seated was an 1840 half dollar, and an 1840 seated half dime.    Hunted in Field 2, auto GB, noise cancel, 22 gain, 50 tones, multi-freq, default settings for everything else.

If anyone has any idea what this do-hickey is, I'd greatly appreciate an ID.  It's about an inch long, and the ID of the circle at the top is about the diameter of a U.S. nickel:

Big ole piece of lead was super deep (and super disappointing at the reveal), two old pieces of green copper,  we find at Spanish era sites.  The large piece is 4.75" long, surprised that wasn't dug up long ago, but just goes to show that there's still potential for large silver, or relics to still be there.

 

Nice old late 1700's/early 1800's flat button:

And the grand finale - lol   This seated dime was deep, came in as a high tone whisper, and even the pinpoint audio was weak/soft.  I've been fooled with plenty of deep iron that sounds similar, but this sounded good enough to go for, took several shovel loads of dirt to get to it, and finally the pin-pointer was sounding off as I saw a dark black disc fly by in the dirt movement.  I felt around for it, and located it, and before looking at it I felt it to see if it had a loop as I suspected it was going to be a button, no loop, OK, time to check it out and it was an 1838-O seated dime!!

Thanks for looking and HH,
Cal

Hello Cal

Your mystery object in first photograph is a screw down grease cup with the top part missing, the top would have been just over 1" deep and filled with grease and it would have occasionally been screwed down to pressure more grease to a revolving shaft on a tractor or farm machinery these date as far back as the old steam engines used to drive thrashing machines.

Here below is a Google link to many of the same.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&ei=g_n3WpyyHsTVwQLs-rUI&q=Images+of+a+screw+down+grease+cups&oq=Images+of+a+screw+down+grease+cups&gs_l=psy-ab.12...4428312.4459676.0.4462524.35.32.0.2.2.0.201.4719.0j30j1.31.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..2.31.4398.0..0j0i131k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j0i10k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i21k1j33i160k1.0.OWi0IxFg99M

 

[Cal_Cobra]

On 5/18/2018 at 1:24 AM, Randy Dee said:

Hello Cal

Your mystery object in first photograph is a screw down grease cup with the top part missing, the top would have been just over 1" deep and filled with grease and it would have occasionally been screwed down to pressure more grease to a revolving shaft on a tractor or farm machinery these date as far back as the old steam engines used to drive thrashing machines.

Here below is a Google link to many of the same.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&ei=g_n3WpyyHsTVwQLs-rUI&q=Images+of+a+screw+down+grease+cups&oq=Images+of+a+screw+down+grease+cups&gs_l=psy-ab.12...4428312.4459676.0.4462524.35.32.0.2.2.0.201.4719.0j30j1.31.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..2.31.4398.0..0j0i131k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j0i10k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i21k1j33i160k1.0.OWi0IxFg99M

 

Randy thanks for taking a crack at it.  It's similar in shape, but it's 1850's or older, it's cast and all hand finished.   It's something either per-industrial revolution or early IR, it's not 20th century for sure.

TY&HH,
Cal

[Randy Dee]

2 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Randy thanks for taking a crack at it.  It's similar in shape, but it's 1850's or older, it's cast and all hand finished.   It's something either per-industrial revolution or early IR, it's not 20th century for sure.

TY&HH,
Cal

Hello Cal

A link to an American Restoration Company which reproduce parts for the agricultural  steam engines dating to the 1800's.

When I was in my early working life in farming 60 years ago these grease reservoirs were the norm on the paraffin driven tractors as well as the then aging steam driven corn thrashers and balers, these grease cups were made of cast steel and I am sure if you poke the center dirt from the bottom of the cup you will find that there is a hole straight through.

https://www.restorationstuff.com/ecommerce/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=74

Good Hunting .... Randy Dee

[UtahRich]

Pretty sure that is a custom gear shift knob for a wagon, likely from early traders on the Old Spanish Trail.  It is missing the glass insert.    ?  

Rich (Utah)

Some really nice finds there.