DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Walked around the neighborhood a bit and dug some clad but nothing really old...this time.
In one strip nearer to my house on the way home I dug this little cheap toy lock.
Rooted around in the hole with the pinpointer and two nails came out then I was shocked when I found this tiny key.
Had to go to this lock, I found several tiny locks like this before but never a key.
At home after getting all the dirt out of the closed lock I inserted the key and I'll be darned...the thing popped open!
The main site I walked to was a historical park that was built in the late 1800's and soon after massive homes were built around the park from 1901 on two acre lots where the city's most well to do and elite lived.
The park and neighborhood are all private property and off limits to hunt...unless I get the courage up one day to walk in there and ask for permission.
However, outside the park there are some huge curb strips that are long and at least 20' wide and I have never hunted before.
Just a quick run through this time but two very cool things were dug.
This is a mini Tootsietoy aircraft carrier, probably from about the 40's and still has some of the original green paint.
Love digging Tootsies...never found a boat before so neat.
This one was a surprise...a cast crotal bell and I figure the late 1800's to early 1900's...before cars became popular.
It's perfect and beautiful, had to be dropped not long after it was made.
Cleaned out the inside and the iron pea was still in there and now it rings like the day it was manufactured.
This is encouraging, you know what else was common around the time when this fell off of some horse...Barber coins, a treasure that has maddeningly eluded me for my whole career.
On the way home when I got back to my block I bent over to dig a copper cent and a young guy walked over to ask if I found anything good.
He happens to live in the corner house next door to where I was digging and I asked if it was ok to hunt his property sometime and he says sure.
The lots are small here with postage stamp sized tiny front lawns but the corner houses have much more grass going around the side.
It was already dark by then but I was using the Red Racer so I turned on the backlight and just did a very quick reconnaissance mission to see if I could get one good signal and a 1959 memorial showed up.
Not a wheat but close enough and the last corner house on this block I hunted held an old pocket watch, a silver religious medal, a dozen old wheats and 4 silver dimes and a war nickel so this bodes well.
Going back to the old curb strip and the home in a few minutes with the F70...a detector I know much better so I hope some more great things find their way into my treasure pocket.
Stay tuned!
In one strip nearer to my house on the way home I dug this little cheap toy lock.
Rooted around in the hole with the pinpointer and two nails came out then I was shocked when I found this tiny key.
Had to go to this lock, I found several tiny locks like this before but never a key.
At home after getting all the dirt out of the closed lock I inserted the key and I'll be darned...the thing popped open!
The main site I walked to was a historical park that was built in the late 1800's and soon after massive homes were built around the park from 1901 on two acre lots where the city's most well to do and elite lived.
The park and neighborhood are all private property and off limits to hunt...unless I get the courage up one day to walk in there and ask for permission.
However, outside the park there are some huge curb strips that are long and at least 20' wide and I have never hunted before.
Just a quick run through this time but two very cool things were dug.
This is a mini Tootsietoy aircraft carrier, probably from about the 40's and still has some of the original green paint.
Love digging Tootsies...never found a boat before so neat.
This one was a surprise...a cast crotal bell and I figure the late 1800's to early 1900's...before cars became popular.
It's perfect and beautiful, had to be dropped not long after it was made.
Cleaned out the inside and the iron pea was still in there and now it rings like the day it was manufactured.
This is encouraging, you know what else was common around the time when this fell off of some horse...Barber coins, a treasure that has maddeningly eluded me for my whole career.
On the way home when I got back to my block I bent over to dig a copper cent and a young guy walked over to ask if I found anything good.
He happens to live in the corner house next door to where I was digging and I asked if it was ok to hunt his property sometime and he says sure.
The lots are small here with postage stamp sized tiny front lawns but the corner houses have much more grass going around the side.
It was already dark by then but I was using the Red Racer so I turned on the backlight and just did a very quick reconnaissance mission to see if I could get one good signal and a 1959 memorial showed up.
Not a wheat but close enough and the last corner house on this block I hunted held an old pocket watch, a silver religious medal, a dozen old wheats and 4 silver dimes and a war nickel so this bodes well.
Going back to the old curb strip and the home in a few minutes with the F70...a detector I know much better so I hope some more great things find their way into my treasure pocket.
Stay tuned!
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You got some really nice finds on that round. Looking forward to seeing if you do better on the next hunt.
Could be hard to beat a lock with key, the Tootsietoy and crotal bell.
