Couple Of Recent Finds

[Againstmywill]

Local parks with the Equinox 15" coil running in Park 1. The Panama coin was on the surface right below the grass. The car was in the outfield of a ballfield, and the Firestone nozzle was in an area of a park that is now used for equine related endeavors. Any ideas about the other item that has rusting iron with the center piece that is decorative? Love being in FL this time of year vs. being in a colder climate and knowing there is a coin under the frozen layer of soil that will have to wait for the spring to extract!

[GB_Amateur]

Those (broken) pieces remind me of a toy gyroscope:

I had some of those when I was a kid (60's) and they probably were around well before that.

The toy car looks quite old -- 50's or even 40's would be my guess.  Keep up the detecting and glad you are enjoying the weather down there!

[Againstmywill]

10 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

Those (broken) pieces remind me of a toy gyroscope

It appears that you have got it. Thanks for the help!

[rvpopeye]

That last pic looks a LOT like the drawer pulls I have in my RV.

They break exactly like that too.

Is the back side perfectly flat and the front center part kinda set back 1/16"?

Built in 1981.  

[Againstmywill]

7 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

That last pic looks a LOT like the drawer pulls I have in my RV.

They break exactly like that too.

Is the back side perfectly flat and the front center part kinda set back 1/16"?

Built in 1981.  

Both sides are set in the same. I think a gyroscope is the answer, and the older ones had a thicker iron "cage" to them by the looks of it. All the parts came out of the same hole and were likely damaged by my inability to get it out of the hole easily. Thanks for the idea about the drawer pull!

[rvpopeye]

It kinda looked like both to me so I threw it in as a possible.

And why I described the drawer pull like I did. 

The gyroscope is a way cooler find IMO ! 

[Rick N. MI]

I love the old car, nice finds. The other piece looks like a little cannon but maybe the end of water hose.

[Gold Seeker]

It's definitely an old gyroscope toy, they were very popular from the 1950s and into the 1970s, that one is a earlier one and in the same time frame as the Tootsie Toy car.

[rvpopeye]

I started life in the 50s , had my share of those qyroscopes. 🤩 

Free toys in cereal boxes and Cracker Jacks were the real deal then too !

(And Slinky toys ! When did they turn to plastic ??? sad. 🙁 how are we supposed to find THEM in the future? ) 

Gotta call Santa 'bout that ! Maybe we could do a petition ?

[F350Platinum]

I really like the hose end sprayer, cool it's marked. Must have really sounded off when you got the coil over it! Dug one like that a couple of months ago, cleaned it up, put a new gasket in it, and it works great. 😀 Mine was 1950s vintage.