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.

53 minutes ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said:

Some of my best finds were from under houses, especially houses that were removed except for the foundation.  Lots of coins and marbles end up down the floor heater vents.  Really like your cigarette packet find.  Sold a log cabin beer can I found under a house in the 70's for $50.00 bucks.  Lots of money back then.  Now it's worth $1000.00.  Gotta love that old stuff.  Nice finds!!!  GaryC/Oregon Coast.

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.

9 minutes ago, PI-Man said:

Great finds!  I am with CPT I have a habit of running into the most dangerous critters when I do the crawling thing.  Snakes seem to like me — the rattling kind. 

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. 

49 minutes ago, Rick N. MI said:

Great finds. How was crawling under the house? Lots of spiders? lol See anything interesting under there.

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.

7 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Doc

I'm guessing you had some kind of experimental find locator chip implanted in your head back in the 70s ?  Possible alien origin??? (You sure didn't find it on the i-net back then)...and ...where and when can I get one and did the probing hurt too much ?  😏

Kidding aside Doc ,a hunt well done !  Looking forward to your next . 

 

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.

9 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Heh, I bow to JCR and a few others, seems like they've seen a lot of relics. I just use Google Lens, and hit paydirt now and again, a lifetime of searching for stuff on the Internet has given me some skill. That and sort of a relentless spirit. Yours took less than a minute! 😀

I've only found one Cash coin with no details in one of the farms I have permission to. Let's say the "immigrant" laborers here weren't exactly minters of currency. I'm fascinated with how old some of those are, and it takes quite a bit of searching to identify one. The details have to be sharp. Some of them are very old.

Really love the stuff Western and Western-ish detectorists find. 👍 It doesn't have to be too old to be rare and cool.

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

3 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Wow, Doc!! Beautiful button pendant and coin. 👍 You find the coolest stuff.😎 Which detector found em?

Here's a treat for ya:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia70795.html

Thanks for sharing this stuff! 🏆

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!

1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:

A fate that is unavoidable for all of us, no matter our delusions of invincibility 🤣

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.

15 minutes ago, caprock said:

Here is the tongue

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

6 minutes ago, JCR said:

That is a very nice assortment of relics. Would a Great Coat or Cloak have a larger button?  I bet you are going to find a lot more interesting targets there.   Thanks for posting.

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!

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

2 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

I would like to see an upgrade to the extremely hard to remove and replace rear cap. Square threads and a bit tougher material would help. I've replaced one and bought spares. I expect to replace more on the MI-6. 

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.

On 5/6/2023 at 4:53 PM, Doc Bach said:

Hello fellow members I went to an old haunt on Thursday for a few slow hours but I did manage to find a few nice buttons including this early one piece eagle.I have the Warren K. Tice Uniform buttons 1776-1865 book but cannot seem to locate it and i'm hoping that one of the experts out there might know something about it.I apologize for the poor quality photos as I am learning a new camera.If you look closely you will notice two letters below the eagles perch V T or V I ? The Back-mark is not that legible either as there is a lot of wear and I did not want to clean it very much.

Thanks Everyone!

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.

13 minutes ago, Tom_in_CA said:

I see others beat me to the punch.  Yes, it's the highly coveted N.Y.L. button. 

 

And as caprock points out, one of their bivwac assignment locations was Monterey, CA (where I live) I've found 2 so far.  And I've seen 3 or 4 others found by buddies in this coastal CA area.   And they get found in G.R. sites , and are highly prized. 

 

They were only here in Monterey for a short time , before the gold rush broke out, and they all headed to the gold rush  🙂

 

Not sure of a value, but way-back-when, when I had found one, was offered something on the order of $300 for it, if I recall.  Others have been found since then, so I'm not sure of what current collector demand ($$) would be.  But just that :  They are a niche-unto themselves to find, amongst button enthusiasts and CA history buffs.

 

Congratz !

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.