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MangoAve
10-26-2015, 10:20 AM
This weekend I went to an 1800 to ask a permission but second time there no one was home. So I went to a 1740 house where there was a significance for the man who built it and his role in the RW for the town. I cant give too much away. I heard there was a gold coin found there, after the first time I was in the area. The owner told me that someone already went there and pulled up a cool copper bracelet and they dug an IH while digging for a fence post. Since she told me it was hit and the first time I was there I didn't know any better I just shied away and tried the field next to it and the house near it. I did get a 1700s flat button and musket balls that time.
This time I got some nice relics. Shows sites are never hunted out. I did start off in the less obvious areas like inside the small cedar bush by the driveway (one that you could get inside). Id did find a bunch of clad there. I went back by one of the sheds and picked up a 1946 Canadian penny. Then a really small buckle. It was bent. Later that day I tried to heat it up with a torch to make the metal malleable. Despite the nice green flame from the copper content, it still was really brittle and broke. I pieced it together for a pic. It is quite small. Maybe I will use some two part epoxy to hold it back together. The 55 license tag was near the hatchway. I thoroughly checked the area there by the old entryway whatever I could due to the metal basement window guard there.
I went around the front finding some more clad. Around the side tho, it got really quiet for some reason. Maybe it was filled... but it was filled in the 40's because I still got a nice green 1940 Canadian penny there. I did go back around the path toward the shed again and snagged a nice sash buckle half. The bar in the back is bent but it is very ornate. Too bad I didn't get to stay long because I had to be home for an event that night...formal requiring shower and shave and whatnot. Yes, my face sometimes sees a razor and I stop being Jesus for a few days. :lol:
Oh, and her dog kinda prevented me from doing much in the back yard. He was begging for attention when I got there, but once I was swinging the detector he was going crazy. Maybe he thought it was the vacuum. She told me that he even didn't like a guy with a cane, which prompted the question of him being a rescue animal, of which he is not. First thing when I arrived, which I am putting at the end, she thought I was her daughter's friend who drunkenly took out her mailbox the night before. Hope he did show up later on to pay her to fix it.

The few pics. Too bad its not overloaded like usual for all you pic enthusiasts.
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Cheap Thrills
10-26-2015, 11:36 AM
Interesting stuff and interesting story . Congrats on your finds .

del
10-26-2015, 01:05 PM
interesting looking small buckle is it pretty sturdy metal or very easy to bend ??


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MangoAve
10-27-2015, 07:46 AM
Interesting stuff and interesting story . Congrats on your finds .

Haha. Thanks CT. Nothing like adding more interesting things to the hobby.


interesting looking small buckle is it pretty sturdy metal or very easy to bend ??

It looks brittle and stiff. It's def got copper even if an alloy, because the green flame that was produced. I think you can tell from the picture where it was bent, before I broke it into pieces, the red color. I'd say it's maybe 3/8" across and an inch long.

BTV Digger
10-27-2015, 08:09 PM
Nice and decorative pieces there Jim. Really like the ornate sash buckle.

John

MangoAve
10-28-2015, 07:22 AM
Nice and decorative pieces there Jim. Really like the ornate sash buckle.

John

Thanks John. That's the one thing about relics, and it holds even more truth to sash buckles. They are often more unique and interesting.

Lodge Scent
10-28-2015, 03:02 PM
Nice! It seems a lot of sash buckles have that similar shape....different motifs but same shape.

MangoAve
10-29-2015, 06:47 AM
Nice! It seems a lot of sash buckles have that similar shape....different motifs but same shape.

I'd say a lot do, too. But the smaller ones are often heart shaped.

Bell-Two
11-06-2015, 09:06 AM
Diverse types of finds!

MangoAve
11-09-2015, 10:21 AM
Diverse types of finds!

I'd say expected. The 1750 house I hit last year had a sash buckle and license tag from the year after. Altho it was the whole plate I found, and this time around it took a few weeks to find another camera. Lol.