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

[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 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. Great find!!

[jkress]

Wow, that is a really great find giant.

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

Congrats on hitting one of your goals.

[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

[Jeff (or)]

WTG, very cool! 8)

[del]

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

[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!!

[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/