Geologyhound

I’d say keep hunting there but I don’t think you need the encouragement…😊

Can’t knock that!

Still, one Barber is a good day for me. Two is great! Congrats!

Is it magnetic? If you scrap it across an unglazed porcelain plate, does it leave a streak of a particular color?

Can you scratch any of these with a knife blade? My second question would be if you drip any dilute hydrochloric acid on them will it fizz? Most carbonate rocks will react with acid and fizz and can be scratched with a knife blade. If they won’t fizz and can scratch a knife blade, then I would guess at quartzite.

Almost looks like an old mile marker post. Do you happen to have a picture of a fresh broken - not cut surface?

Hope you patented it!

Looks like vein agate (cryptocrystalline silicon dioxide). I suspect some of the coloration may be due to surface iron staining, but yellow coloration is fairly common in agate.

It looks a little like carborundum (silicon carbide). Still industrial byproduct or discarded product, but it would explain the color and the hardness.

I did manage to edit the reply posts, or else there would’ve been three duplicates. The real problem is I can’t figure out how to delete a duplicate post.

Looks like a nifty design! Is this something you developed or something you found somewhere?

Is this like a carabiner?

Hopefully I won’t have to deal with any of those!

This is another duplicate reply I am over writing because I can’t figure out how to delete it.

OK, I was having a problem finishing my post so I exited Safari and came back in. I still couldn’t finish my post so I exited Safari came back in again and then cleared the editor and started from scratch. This time I was able to finish my post and I submitted it only to find that it got submitted three times. I can’t figure out how to delete a post and if I edit a post to have nothing it won’t let me do it. So I’m over writing one of the duplicate posts with this question. How do I delete a post?

I do like the notion of one which has some good longevity to it!

I normally hunt areas where trowels are required. I have recently gained access to some more wooded areas and need to add a good shovel to my tool kit. It preferably won’t weigh me down, but needs to be rugged enough to cut roots without falling apart in a year or two. The next question is how do you forest hunters carry a shovel? Do you have some sort of back strap carry pouch, or do you just carry it in your free hand and try to keep it away from the coil? I would prefer to keep a free hand if possible, but also don’t want to waste a lot of time accessing a shovel for each target.

Diamond serial numbers are laser etched. But I’ve never heard of them being put anywhere other than the girdle. If it’s a standard serial number, you might be able to make it out with a 10x hand lens. However a stronger lens might be easier. These serial numbers are registered in a database as TTT2866 mentioned. So plug it in and see. You might be able to find the original owner.

Any multi silver day is good in my book! If you’re interested, there are a variety of sites which will give you an approximate date for the shotgun shell based on the headstamp. https://cartridge-corner.com/shotgun.htm is one example. This is sometimes useful for dating sites when I haven’t found any coins.

Hard to beat that! Any idea what the Indian piece is?

I like the alligator idea. Now who could’ve imported alligators to Ohio?🤔

That is starting to look like the trash I bring back…😄

I found this US armed forces Signal Corps pin perhaps 30 feet from where I historically found an 1890s barber dime. I can’t find any information online to indicate the age, so any help would be appreciated. All the modern ones appear to have a smooth background, are domed, or don’t have a raised rim. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any markings on the back. I’m not even sure if it’s supposed to be a collar pin or an oversized cufflink. It almost looks like the back piece was made to screw on, but there is one tooth – perhaps to keep it from shifting against the fabric. The little fleur-de-lis piece was found in a different area of the site. It rang through loud and clear. I had to dig under some large roots for it, so I am not sure of the exact depth, but it was about 10-12 inches deep. I was a little flabbergasted that I picked up something that small that deep. There are two little knobs on the back so it must’ve been affixed to something. There are no markings on the back of this either. The only coin I found for this day was out in the middle of the woods and was a 1960 Lincoln… Does anybody have any idea what the double sided ring thing might be?

Always great to find some keepers at a hunted-out site! I didn’t have to use mine very long to figure the 11 x 13 was going to be my standard coil.

Welcome from southwest OH!