Geologyhound

44 minutes ago, dave_e said:

😆

I thought you were going to show a seated 20c coin.

Oh how I wish!😁

2 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Great little hunt with a few nice finds.

My grandmother has a plate just like that.

Good luck on your next hunt.

Thank you, and you too!  My mom and dad handed down the plates when they got a new set.  There are fewer now than there used to be…

11 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Heh, I call that "ABC" lead, Already Been Chewed. 😁 I find a lot of it, mostly musket balls chewed by farm animals.

I’ll have to remember that one. 😄

9 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Is the object marked "Sterling" actually sterling?

Unfortunately not. It appears to be a small emblem off of a Sterling truck. That company was in business from the late 90s to the early 2000s.

FYI, the unidentifiable mass next to the rimfire casing appears to be an old bullet, or at least a lead mass.

Now why oh why couldn’t it have been American?

The color gave me a start for a second.  Definitely not the standard run-of-the-mill US clad corrosion…

4 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

She still had some yarn left over from that time to make me a pair of the exact gloves she made back then. I will post a picture of them when I get back to the states.

Thanks, I would like to see that!

What a day! Looks like you almost recovered the full concertina…

21 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

We found those same plates on doors of the buildings where the bullets were made, and on crates that were only from that building.

Almost like the utilities placing similar markers on electric poles for a location.

Thanks! This thing is probably somewhat removed from its point of origin.  The location where I found it has been in continuous use since the late 1800s and has never produced armaments or defense equipment of any sort.  It has never been a factory. 

8 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Hey, thanks for asking!

It's a "Vocational Agriculture" pin. Still has the pin! I have no idea why. 🤔

It says FFA above the plow and owl. The Future Farmers of America was founded in 1928.  Almost every pin I found online also had an eagle perched on top.  I only found one without the eagle like yours.  That seller at Worthpoint thought it might be a greenhorn pin.

That is one cool badge!  Days like that really whet your whistle for more.

What is the little button/pin on the right side of the picture below the rings? I can see there is some sort of pattern on it but I can’t make out what.

16 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Great looking hunt from the collection of finds.

The plate that you found looks like the ones I find near me, when I detect near the old and closed munitions plants.

those places made bullets for a lot of guns. The number is the location number of the building that is owned by the government for production of military items. Part of the numbers are for the type of bullets or shells, then the location.

Hope that helps.

Ah, so you think this might’ve been on a crate of munitions rather than a piece of equipment?

I have been digging zinc pennies at this site because I have found several IHPs, and was rewarded with another IHP - 1888.  I certainly took a close look at the last eight. Unfortunately I can’t see any trace of a 7 under it.  So it is not one of the valuable error coins from that year. ☹️
 

However, I find the Defense Plant Corp. tag to be rather interesting.  The Defense Plant Corp. was a US government corporation from 1940 to 1945 basically in charge of funding war time factories.  I wish there was some way of looking up the serial number on the tag to see on what kind of equipment it used to be mounted.  Anyone have any ideas on that subject?

On 2/25/2024 at 7:50 AM, F350Platinum said:

Hey Ghound,

Since you can't charge multiple things with that little block, you might want to look into one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08HN6JK7N

They're only around 30 bucks and they do "smart" charging so you're not always disconnecting stuff if you don't get out a lot.

There is also this configuration, just plug in on a different face:

https://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Charger-Desktop-Charging-Station/dp/B075V1HYFS

Wish I could post photos but on Amazon everything is .webp now 🤬

I doubt anyone will "borrow" it 😀

Thanks! Good to know there are some multi charger options and I don’t have to stick with the original base.

Thank you!!

I purchased my D2 about a year ago and have just left the charge mains and USB base either plugged into the wall or next to that outlet. I went to charge my detector the other day and found one of my family members had taken the USB base!

I vaguely recall the original instructions mentioning all of the markings which needed to be on a proper base to charge XP equipment.  So I have always considered the original base as dedicated for my detector.  Problem is I never paid attention to it after I got it so I don’t remember what it looked like.  

Could somebody please post a picture of what their charging base looks like? Also does anyone know whether a standard USB plug-in will work for a charger base for XP equipment?

I have attached a picture of the only loose unknown base I have found. I don’t remember it being white and it doesn’t look like the pictures on the XP website. But, I don’t know if all the units are shipped with the black base shown on the XP website.

I am just afraid of frying my equipment if I use the wrong charger. So any help is greatly appreciated!

Looks convex on one side and concave on the other. The concave side is a different color and cracked like a residue of some sort might still be on it. Could it be a lid for a small jar or vial?  Was there any glass, ceramic or other possible container indications when you dug it?

10 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

I'm just thrilled to have one at all!

Mint versions of this coin are worth up to ~$100,000. Woulda been nice... 😅

It's supposed to weigh 1.35g, but it only weighs 1.2. it was on a thread or chain, probably worn for years before it was lost. The wearer managed to completely obliterate the reverse, must have been very active 🤔

Looks like yours is the large eight version? Still worth about $1421 in G4 condition (if it were complete and intact ☹️).  A great find nonetheless!  Maybe it’s sister is hiding out there somewhere…

You sure have found some nice spots to detect!

Nice! I’m glad the legible side has the date.  It almost looks like the backside got sheared off rather than worn off. Is it overly thin?

Last metal detecting club meeting someone entered a find in the find the month which was a working (?) 1800’s miniature toy cannon about the diameter of a pencil on a hinged mount something like what you have.  Now I wish I’d had more time to take a closer look at it.

The little tiny milky crystals may be drusy quartz.

13 minutes ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Judging from the opening on the slide and the relatively flat, thin, pivoting trigger I am going with a Kilgore cap gun or something similar. I am not an expert on "Saturday Night Special" pocket pistol automatics, but most of the ones I am familiar with have a totally different kind of trigger similar to a 1911 and they don't have slide shell casing ejection openings near the rear sights.

Thanks! At 8 ounces it has a completely different heft than any of the cap pistols I have found or owned.  Do you happen to know the primary metal used in the Kilgore line? The other cap pistols I have found basically peeled chrome back and the aluminum or tin or whatever underneath rotted away into white powder which left the cap pistols in multiple pieces.  This is weakly magnetic all over and is definitely rusting.

33 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Nice hunt Ghound!

First of all, what version are you on?

As to the coins, on V2 I've been noticing that a bit, I've heard a low tone with a great coin now and again, but if I get over 50% positive signals, I'll dig it anyway.

Your pistol appears to have some markings on it, at best it's a toy, and at worst it may still have ammunition in it, so don't go banging it around. 😬 🤣

You got a brass ring, silver, and old coins, a great bit of detecting by any standard. 👍 I'd like to see some better photos of the pistol, mostly likely it's in the 22-25 caliber range.

I am running V2.  Especially on the last IHP, I probably wasn’t even getting 20% positive signals.

Total weight on the gun appears to be slightly over 8 ounces.  At this point in time I would hope nothing could actually fire or ignite, but I’m being careful not to flag myself anyway.  I don’t really want to try and clean it if there could be anything live in it.

Reading about the success of so many forum members on their first 2024 hunt made me itch to get out myself.  So, I took an afternoon before the storm front moved in to go hunt the site where I found three 100+ year old coins and a token during my last couple outings.  With my 11x13, I moved further along the crest of the hill from where I had been before.  After about 30 minutes I hit a fairly solid 81.  About 6 inches down I turned up a solid green IHP (1889).  This is the one with the obvious scar around the 11 o’clock position.  About one foot away I got a questionable signal with an ascending/descending tone mixed with iron tones, and an occasional 79 thrown in for good measure.  If I swung one way, the  tone ascended (my tone bins have progressively higher pitches with higher TID’s).  Swinging back the other way the tone descended.  Turning on the target made it dissolve into iron grunts.  

I am using a fast-based program based off of Rattlehead’s Silver Slayer program, and bottle caps are set at five.  Typically, with this ascending/descending broken tone, I find bottle caps.  But, 1 foot away from an IHP, I dug it anyway. Around 7 inches down up popped another green disc.  I thought I had another IHP, but after I got it home I found out it is a 1918 wheat.  Oddly, all I recovered from that hole was the penny. After recovering the penny, I swung the coil over the hole again and no iron.  But, there was a 42 a few inches away.

With two old coins, I slowed down and started gridding the area.  About 20 feet away I got another questionable signal that was mostly iron tones, but I did get an occasional good tone and a 77 from one direction only and one angle.  The backswing and changing angles resulted in iron tones.  I have probably passed on many signals like this before.  But with the number of 100+ year old coins I found here, and an old coin from the last questionable target, I was game. About 8 inches down, I found the unscarred IHP (another 1889).  The pinpointer indicated no other targets in the hole.  Just like the wheat, when I swung over the hole again, no signal whatsoever.  

This has got me wondering how many other IHPs or old wheats I may have missed.  My soil is fairly mild - usually no bars to a couple bars.  Does anybody know why I would be getting a preponderance of iron tones when there is no iron?  My recovery speed was at one.  I had varied it up to about 2.5 in iron patches but kept backing it down when the iron thinned out.  I can understand a good target on the edge of detection may return sporadic good signals, but not why iffy signals from a lone good target would be largely interpreted as iron.

In the same area, I found an old brass ring (83). There is an obvious join on one side. I cannot see any inscription inside or out.  A 93 had me hoping for another quarter, but I am happier with the little silver locket.  I dug too deep for that and had to break apart the plug to find it (the pinpointer missed it initially).  The brass hinge has seen better days.  When it opened, the hinge came apart.  There is nothing inside anymore.

Late in the day I got a solid 61.  Thinking nickel, I again dug too deep. I was rewarded with the earring.  This was about 3 inches down and is completely free of corrosion.  It is also relatively heavy.  I don’t have any metal or stone test kits/instruments.  I was figuring glass or CZ, but I took it by a local jewelry shop.  The guy took a look at it and said he figures it’s glass, but he did not test it.  He said it is faceted wrong for diamond or CZ.  ☹️  There appears to be a slight lightening of shade on the tip of the prongs. This makes me wonder if they are plated. There is no mark that I can see.

The manufacture date on the Winchester Blue Rival No 12 dates from 1894 to 1904.  The manufacture date on the Peters Target No 12 dates from 1902 to 1911.

So, this is the second time I have found three 100+ year old coins in one day at this site.  It is also the first time I’ve ever found two IHPs in one day.  Combined with the jewelry, I was very pleased with my first day out for 2024!  However, the oddest find of the day was the little palm pistol.  It is 4.25x3x1 inches, and is too heavy to be a cap pistol.  It is hard to tell with the rust, but the muzzle opening appears to be about 3/16 inch.  The whole thing is pretty well caked in rust including the grip.  Does anybody have any idea either how to clean it, or what it could be?

I don’t know about anyone else but I am looking forward to many more good finds in 2024.  Happy hunting everyone!

Jackpot!!!  Stake a claim - that is a gold mine!