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  1. fyrffytr1

    Civilian buckle help, please

    Can anyone tell me anything about this brass buckle that was dug in Maryland about 30 years back?
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    Cheap Trail cam pictures

    I live in a subdivision that backs up partially to swamp and a small farm. I have a drainage easement that runs across the back of my property and drains into the swamp. I decided to put up a cheap trail cam and put out some corn just to see what would show. The normal raccoons, foxes and...
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    Helene!

    Latest track has it coming over or just west of my location after midnight tonight. Southwest Georgia. It ain't looking good!
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    Lid?

    I found this stamped brass(?) piece today on hunt cut short by the heat. It is very thin and there are no attachment points on it. The only thing that comes to my mind is a lid for a jewelry box or something like that. After looking at the pictures, I think the last one may be the front/top and...
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    Best Day, Worst Day!

    I went to the creek last Saturday with a buddy and had the best day ever for me. I found 3 complete snapped base Kirk points, a prehistoric camel tooth and a token still in the plastic sleeve. Then, that evening I had my worst day ever! I was taking the points back to my truck after showing...
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    Boston Scrap Party

    Not a metal detecting find, but I thought some folks here might find this interesting. I was looking through an April, 1942 Life magazine and came across an article about a Boston "scrap" party.they were donating everything to the war effort. I hope you can read the captions under the pictures.
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    Sis Silver day without a detector!

    I took a shirt back to Walmart today and passed the Coin Star on the way, but it was empty. After returning the shirt, my wife and I did a little shopping. On the way out we passed the same Coin Star again. This time there was a handful of coins in the return tray. I scooped them out and when I...
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    Counterfeit Coin

    I was going through some more of my brother's stuff and found a coin I could not identify. Turns out it is a counterfeit 5 dollar gold piece. It is struck on a silver planchet and is as old as it dates. There are faint traces of gold plating left on it. Where a real 5 dollar gold coin weighs...
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    Silver coins

    I have been blessed, in my 50 years of detecting to find just about every denomination of US minted silver coins.All of the coins seen in the following pictures were found by me either in Maryland or Georgia. One exception is the twenty cent piece that was found by one of my brothers, most...
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    Silver and gold

    My buddy took me to a well hunted site this afternoon, but I managed to pull three good finds in the 4 hours we were there. About 5 minutes after we got there I found a 1789 half real, then about 20 minutes later I got the 1838 dime.About 30 minutes before we quit I found the small cuff link or...
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    Picked this little pistol up today.

    I bought this little pin fire pistol along with a James Ray Savannah blob top bottle and a 1930s Savannah transit token at a small shop in Thomasville, Georgia. yesterday. I don't know much about the pistol and was hoping someone here could tell me more about it. Best bore measurement I can...
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    Pickked this little pistol up today.

    I bought this little pin fire pistol along with a James Ray Savannah blob top bottle and a 1930s Savannah transit token at a small shop in Thomasville, Georgia. yesterday. I don't know much about the pistol and was hoping someone here could tell me more about it. Best bore measurement I can get...
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    Dawson Blank

    I found this blank stock in a warehouse in Dawson, Georgia a good while back. It is a blank stock for the Dickson, Nelson & Co. rifle made in the Dawson Armory from around 1864 until the end of the war. The Dickson Nelson Co. moved several times during the war ending up in Dawson which is about...
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    Found this while metal detecting.

    It is not metal but still a pretty rare find. I eyeballed part of this sticking out of the ground so I put it in my pouch and finished my hunt which produced very little. When I met my buddy back at the trucks we showed each other our finds, then I reached in my pouch and said "I found an egg"...
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    Nothing much today.

    It was a good day spent with good friends. 1854 shield nickel 1904 Indian head and a New York staff officer cuff button with a Scovill backmark.
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    Token

    I found this token/tag last Sunday. It is from the Masons annuity in Atlanta, Ga. and dates 1900. One side reads "to identify telegraph this number 6658 to ?? (Masons?) annuity, Atlanta, Ga." Best I can get from the other side is Masons Annuity/ 1900. There appears to be a star shape in the...
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    I found this token today.

    It is aluminum and a little larger than a quarter. On one side there is a star but I can't make out anything in it. Around the edge starting at the top and going counter clockwise is "Masons Annuity/ 1900/??" The other side reads To Identity ?? Telegraph the Numbers 6685 ??(to Masons?)...
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    WWII bomb explodes in LOndon

    https://www.fox29.com/news/watch-world-war-ii-bomb-unexpectedly-detonates-in-england
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    My luck is still holding out!

    I went back to the same site that gave me the Republican Blues button and managed to pull a Dragoon button, small flower button, glass button, 1821 capped bust dime and a 1789 Real. Not too bad for a 3 hour hunt. All told this year has been one of the best I have had in almost 50 years of...
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    Republican Blues

    My buddy Kevin invited me to hunt with him this afternoon at a freshly plowed and rained on site.My first good signal was the front to an Infantry cuff button. Then I got into some trash so I moved to a different part of the field. The spot I chose had been hunted just yesterday but I found...

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