Doc Bach

Nice find maybe a luggage or key tag or token or an order proof of purchase item? I live in the peoples republic of Curruptofornia.

Hey thanks Gary! Everything that you pointed out is true.I started crawling houses in the early 60's primarily looking for antique bottles and found some killer ones at that.But like you said beer and other cans in mint condition would often turn up as well as the marbles coins and tokens.Was the log cabin can from Portland by any chance? I have two pumpkinseed flask from the log cabin saloon Billy Winter proprietor.I really like your comment.... Doc.

They are out there too PI-Man! But I always had more bad luck with the two legged variety that I would encounter when I was crawling in and out of bars.Back when I was young and dumb and full of...well you know the rest.

Wise decision Captain. There are definitely far better, easier and more lucrative options out there.Sometimes my tinfoil hat takes over my thinking and I am like a dog chasing its own tail.

Hey Rick, sounds like you have been there and done that? No mummified rats or cats but yeah lots of spiders. As the old saying goes I'm getting a little too old for that s---t! I have had a bad case of bottle fever lately antique bottles that is lol.

The relic and coin forum has been pretty quiet the last couple of days other than the recent comments on Geologyhounds interesting topic so I decided to post this..Certainly not anything even remotely close to writing home about here but I got around to crawling under a house in my hometown anticipating finding some embossed local saloon and or pharmacy bottles but no luck there.The long and short of it though is that there was plenty of room to detect under the front porch and around the crawl hole. So anyway I lucked onto a little spill of Liberty tickles and a trashed IHP and a few other goodies. The Dates On The Nickels 1886 1902 1904 And 1905 Not Sure About The IHP? Coat Hook? The Lucky Pack Is Pretty Cool.

You crack me up Popeye! and I like your sense of humor. You could be right about that but by all accounts from family members I was born with the affliction.My grandpappy would always muse and tell stories about how I could crawl and later walk to a given spot in the dirt and dig up something interesting.And how I was always looking on the ground ( which I still do ) and walking into street signs parking meters and trees and bumping my noggin.The picture below was taken at the apartment building where we lived in Richmond Ca in 1954 or 55 I'm guessing? when I was three or four? I'm on the floor probably starting to cry because my older brother Johnny who was always a mean bugger kinda like Bluto was taking what I am guessing is a marble that I just dug up.

Good and helpful info....I learned something there thanks again.

Boy Howdy 350 you're the man when it comes to researching and figuring out what stuff is.I had no idea that what I thought was just a fancier and scarcer version of the commonly found Chinese cash coin would turn out to be a souvenir token! I was using the d 1 with the skinny HF coil on that trip anticipating a lot of weeds.I'm going back soon and will be moving a ton of deadfall and removing an old barbed wire fence that was lying flat on the ground when I was there forty years ago and expect some good targets to come available.I found the peace dollar that I used for scale complete with the big scratch that i Put in it in 1974 at the old catholic church in the town that I grew up in.Thanks!

The first day that I hunted the old hop pickers camp was back in the late 70's with a Whites Coinmaster. Thats the day that I dug the coat button? missing it's eyelet and the nicest and most interesting Oriental coin that I have ever found.I pounded the place pretty hard for a couple of years with the Whites and later a Garrett Groundhog and found a fair amount of decent stuff. I then moved on and left the place that has been hiding in plain site on the back burner so to speak.Fast forward forty three years later and I thought why not once again try to acquire permission which was granted and see what the Deus 1 and 2 and maybe NOX 800 can sniff out? So far the second identical button and the little pendant have made the effort well worth it.

True words of wisdom 350....However there is an unfortunate alternative which is gloomy.

Mean little Bastards!

Very pleasing watch fob that you found 350.Sometimes those really steep areas can pay off quite well. Some hunters are just a little too well lets say lazy and then of course there are others that cannot traverse such terrain because of health reasons. And then there are those who just overlook them altogether.In my own experience they can sometimes produce coin spills the direct result of someone falling and going ass over teakettle.

Faraway on the distant foreshore I found my first arrowhead on an outing with family and friends.June the 5th 1959 my eighth birthday and I still have it.

Outstanding PI-Man! The coppers speak for themselves historically but the buttons are fantastic.like the bell as well.

Hey thanks caprock I find those belt adjuster slides fairly often.... That one has a break in the bottom corner and was found several hundred yards away from the disk.I suspected that's what it might be but could not see where it attached to the tongue but now it's obvious because of the dent in the disk and from another damaged one I found two weeks prior.Thanks again for your input and I appreciate your knowledge. Smaller sized disk

Hey thanks Tex.Next fall and winter should be interesting after the foilage that is almost as tall as I am dies off.I cannot even see any of the features at this point. Thanks for your comments.

And a fine buckle it is Cal Cobra!

Nothing all that spectacular here just some more of the stuff that often turns up at these early western sites that unlike the gold camps were inhabited by folks that did not have a whole lot of money. Mostly I just wanted to show another piece of millitaria that was found that I am not completely sure about.I'm thinking that it was either a very large two piece general service type coat button missing its back portion or perhaps part of a stamped two piece buckle although there is no signs of it being attached to a frame. I have had to resort to using primairily the deus 1 with the elliptical coil due to the unbelievable density of the weeds and native grasses which are the direct result of the very wet winter.Relic site detecting in my area is going to be real tough until the fall die off. A few eyeballed items Some of the more interesting trash.

Keeping things clean?Now there is a novel idea! Why didn't I think of that?

Great idea 350! they can be a little rough on those of us with sore joints that's for sure.I ended up carefully using a pair of channel locks on a couple of occasions.

I think that you're on to something there Captain i have been having a lot of problems in that regard as well.Matter of fact I had to restrain myself from throwing mine into the river a few days ago.I got a hold of myself thankfully and put it into my pack and brought out the trusty old carrot.

And here are the other two fancy dress buttons that I found the same day in very close proximity to the N.Y.L.eagle.

Hey thanks Tom i was pretty certain that you would probably have some knowledge and information about it.Being that the embossing was somewhat weak and I could not make out the lettering I had difficulty researching it.

Thanks for your information Caprock. Yes I am aware of Mr Stevenson's Regiment somewhere packed away in my storage I have a book that I have not seen in 30 years or so about his travels and memoirs.During the late 70's and early 80's I was able to locate and dig at a couple of sites that he and his men visited in Mendocino and Sonoma Counties.You are correct that they were in the goldfields as well.With the info that BigSkyGuy provided I found an article from the September 2004 Western and Eastern Treasures Magazine ask Mark Parker Q and A column from a guy who found two identical buttons like mine in a gold camp in Sonora California.