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Excellent! Has the smoke abated in "Edmonchuck"?

Soaked in hydrogen peroxide, then ultrasonic cleaned. I agree, probably a cheap piece. This community was at the end of the railroad. Most of the early settler stuff came from a Sears catalog.

This is about as clean as it gets. I'd say it's bronze or brass. Possibly it was gold gilded. There's a bit of blue reflective finish in the upper "squares". It might have been jewel encrusted in the small holes, or maybe just some reflective gold paint. Ill probably donate it to the local museum.

I found this at a 100 year old school site in rural northern Alberta, Canada. It looks like some type of cruciform brooch. There are the remains of a simple pin and latch on the back. It has a bit of a bronze blue/green patina on the back.

Beauties!

A cleaning with an Andres Crayon followed by a 48 hour soak in hydrogen peroxide might do the trick on the IHP.

Nice to see you're out having fun. Looks like it's going to be a beautiful weekend in Alberta.

Great story...and some nice finds.

Beautiful!

I once knew a horseback trail guide in central BC. This is what he told his guests to do in the event of a grizzly attack. 1. Lay down. 2. Curl up in a ball as tight as you can with your head between your legs. 3. Kiss your ass goodbye.

I'm not aware of any RAF training site in my area, but that makes sense. I live in Northern Alberta. Perhaps someone was visiting from one of the 4 RAF training schools in Alberta during WW2. My farm was homesteaded in 1930. The lettering on the second button is legible. I just read that these buttons were made by a company called Cheney in Birmingham UK. Some had a compass hidden inside. There were two compass designs. Early ones had a 4-star compass with a right-hand thread back, later ones had a 4-hole type compass with a left-hand thread back (to fool the Germans, who had discovered the earlier design). These two buttons ar regular types, without a compass. Needless to say, I'll search this area again. It's full of farm litter, so detecting is slow and tedious.

I'm using a CTX 3030. I decided to go 50 tones, all metal. Went back a few minutes ago and found a companion button and a 1938 US cent, all within a 3 foot circle. This area is full of farm trash, so hunting it is tedious, but obviously worthwhile....

You never know what you might find in your own yard. RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) brass button. Found 100 feet from my house in an area I've detected heavily before...

Nice finds. I really like the pocket watch case.

That's very cool! I wonder what 1/4 cent would buy you in 1835?

I find that when I'm having a bad hunt, I tend to speed-up my swing rate. Translation: slow down.

Went to an old homesite last night. I just stepped out of the car, snapped some pictures of a forest fire across the Peace River and was getting my detecting gear out of the car. I looked to my left and there was this fresh elk shed lying on an old rock pile in the ditch. Clean as a whistle, all points intact, with no chew marks. Now I need to go looking for it's partner.....

I prefer to set my threshold to a barely audible level. Just a light hum.

Congrats on the coins. Iffy signals demand concentration and slow sweeps.

Found this Canadian '47 ML quarter about 60 feet from my house, in an area near the old bbq pit where folks tossed their garbage back in the day. It rang up as a 12-45 in one direction and 11-40 in the other direction. It was surrounded by bits of junk metal. I was running in "all metal" mode. I missed it last Fall with a Nox 600, but the CTX sniffed it out this time around. .

I agree. The Canadian Large cents had a bit more tin and less zinc than the small cent coins. They're a bit more like bronze, and tend to develop a nice green or light brown patina in the ground.

Took my new/used CTX out for its first hunt. This was a 1935 site I hit hard last Fall with a Nox 600. I was impressed with how the CTX rooted out coins-on-edge and those buried amongst the trash. '16 dime, '46 dime, '44 quarter, and 21 pennies. The '46 dime completed my collection of Canadian silver dimes from '38 to '68. I used the "User" button to cycle between the factory "coin" program (50 tones) and a custom program (5 tones, combined). The soil was wet, full of bottle caps and iron bits. Auto Sensitivity (+3) reduced the number of false signals. Response: "Normal". Target Separation: "Ferrous/coin". I didn't find the CTX's weight overly taxing on my old body. If anything, it encouraged me to slow my swing-rate a bit. Not a bad thing....

That's awesome! I bet you were pretty stoked when you found it.

Agreed. Supply chains for electronic parts (and parts in general) are still brutally slow worldwide. In my business (motorcycles) some parts that used to take a week to get at the dealer level now take several months. Some customers miss out on an entire riding season. New model delays are common. IMHO, regardless of the reason for Minelab's new model delays, it seems unprofessional for IDC to publicly shame Minelab. Bad-mouthing a former business associate isn't good for business in the long term. There's more to this story than meets the eye....

Well, that's one side of the story.....