February 20th at the park/woods I got a first

[giant056]

I've always wanted to find an old match box and I finally found one this morning at the park/woods. It's spring loaded and when you press the button it flips open. Right after I found it I could hear the matches rattling around inside and I figured it couldn't be matches they be decomposed by now. I was running my V3i in relic mode with the D2 on it and I got a signal between a huge log (sunken down in the dirt) and about a 4 diameter tree. I was using my relic shovel and started digging between the log and tree, I got down about a foot and still nothing had come out, well I angle the shovel underneath the tree and pushed in and I seen it fall out, the doggone thing was directly under the tree. Needless to say it took me a little while to dig this one out. I didn't stay out there very long today and soon after I dug the match box ice pellets started coming down pretty good so I had to quit.

[pulltabsteve]

WOW!!! Thats sweet :clapping:

[greg]

Now that's cool

[coinnut]

Them match stick cases are pretty water tight for the most part. I found 2 so far, one had the same type matches (minus the sulphur) and the other has trolley tickets still in them. It's amazing that they can keep them items from rotting :dontknow: If only they had stuck a couple of dollars and maybe a gold coin in it, that would be nice lol Yours has a lot of silver left on it. :clapping: Great find!!

[jkress]

Wow, that is a really great find giant. :happydance01:

It is amazing how those match sticks managed through the years.

Congrats on hitting one of your goals. :clapping:

[zrickkid]

Nice find. I wonder what the design is on the case?

[Evan/tn]

There's something you don't dig everyday,cool find Larry thumbsup01

[Carver]

That's a cool find Larry,,,,,the matches are in great shape considering how long it's probably been buried :shocked04: :shocked04:

[Jeff (or)]

WTG, very cool! 8)

[del]

very cool and personable relic Larry , my favorite kind of items i likediscover. :peace:

[Civil War Nut]

Thats nice 56. Has it got a name or anything to date it with ? That would be nice.

[SeabeeRon]

For this West Coast Sand Digger who will probably never see one of those, whats something like that date from?? Very interesting find!! :clapping:

[giant056]

I did get a pic of it before I washed it off, when I washed it off the plating just peeled right off cause of the corrosion between it and the case. I think the case might be copper or maybe brass. There's a cat on it. I couldn't find any writing on it.

[coinnut]

Oh yeah, ther is a cat on it lol Couldn't tell until you said it 8/