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First off my apologies for posting late , this is last Monday's finds :embarrassed:
Went out on President's day in hopes that the 5 to 6 inches of snow that we got on Saturday night/Sunday melted with the high temps afterwards. :crossfingers::crossfingers: So Donnie and I and a couple of friends trudged through the wet snow (I put on more than 4 miles that day ) but the snow seemed a bit to deep as by 1:30 pm nobody had anything worth mentioning :hairpulling::girlcry:
We stopped by the site that coughed up my Rev War Naval button a few months ago and to my surprise the large Pine trees cause all the snow underneath them to be melted and forced me to concentrate in areas most to just pass by . With only an hour to hunt before dark I managed some good finds that included a nice ornate flower designed furniture escutcheon plate a button (plain) , a trigger guard and a matron had large cent .
The escutcheon plate has a very very close resemblance to a "Tudor Rose" a popular and sometimes military (Royal Navy) motif of the late 1700's era
The trigger guard also had a nice floral design engraved on it
although both ends are broken off (which help greatly to id these to what musket or rifle ) i'm still pretty confident this was probably off an early 1800's fowler or Pennsylvania long rifle .
The coin was found when it was dark and I couldn't get a decent picture at that time but its a pretty dirty coin
but should clean up fairly decent .
Dan
Went out on President's day in hopes that the 5 to 6 inches of snow that we got on Saturday night/Sunday melted with the high temps afterwards. :crossfingers::crossfingers: So Donnie and I and a couple of friends trudged through the wet snow (I put on more than 4 miles that day ) but the snow seemed a bit to deep as by 1:30 pm nobody had anything worth mentioning :hairpulling::girlcry:
We stopped by the site that coughed up my Rev War Naval button a few months ago and to my surprise the large Pine trees cause all the snow underneath them to be melted and forced me to concentrate in areas most to just pass by . With only an hour to hunt before dark I managed some good finds that included a nice ornate flower designed furniture escutcheon plate a button (plain) , a trigger guard and a matron had large cent .
The escutcheon plate has a very very close resemblance to a "Tudor Rose" a popular and sometimes military (Royal Navy) motif of the late 1700's era
The trigger guard also had a nice floral design engraved on it
although both ends are broken off (which help greatly to id these to what musket or rifle ) i'm still pretty confident this was probably off an early 1800's fowler or Pennsylvania long rifle . The coin was found when it was dark and I couldn't get a decent picture at that time but its a pretty dirty coin
but should clean up fairly decent . Dan
