Defense Plant Corp. Tag

[Geologyhound]

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?

[JCR]

IHPs are always nice. The tag is a pretty unique find.

[Valens Legacy]

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.

[Geologyhound]

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?

[Valens Legacy]

2 hours ago, Geologyhound said:

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

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.

[Geologyhound]

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. 

[Valens Legacy]

5 hours ago, Geologyhound said:

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.

What did they do during WW11 as the item is from that era I believe. There were a lot of companies that made items for the war effort that they normally had done. Just like women who knew how to knit made gloves for soldiers. The government would ask people to help like that and provide the yarn to them for free. Most of the women were never paid a dime, but was allowed to use a portion of the yarn for their own needs. My grandmother had done a lot of gloves while taking care of her children for the military. 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.

[Geologyhound]

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!