JRinkus
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Ok I did some research and found a spot that had a farm house prior to the 1950s The land is all grown over now and I thought "ok time for a woods search" I walked around where I had thought I would find a structure but could not find a trace of anything out there. "NOTHING" so I started swinging anyway some with the detector and mostly at mosquitos. I walked where I thought the house should have been. Not as easy as I had pictured it in my mind. So I stuck to the clearing and what looked like someone had used as a road. Came up with clad. Couldn't believe that I even found anything out here and on top of that it was clad! Found 4 shotgun shell stamps so I kept them. Then at the highest elevation I found a Ford key. Bet a hunter had to walk home after sitting on a hill all night looking for deer. Guessing that the clad was from hunters as well as I can think of no other reason for anyone to be out here. As I made my way back to the car I kept swinging (if you can call it that with all the vines in the way).
Had the ATpro wide open and was not getting a peep. Then in the thickest part and lowest elevation (marshy ground) I get a chirp. After 10 min of complete silence I was ready to dig anything. That's when I got the Barber. And 1899 to boot. Only 4 inches deep, just blind luck. All and all it was a miserable experience but one for the story books.
The link below is how I found out the key was from the 60s. I used a wire brush to get it clean. I'm sure I took off any color it had under the crud.
http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-641927/vintage-ford-uncut-ignition-key-mint-1960s-must-see-w-keychain.html
First key I found actually worth something. $12.00
This is an old Winchester 12-gauge shotgun shell, with just the metal head remaining. The paper casing has rotted away. The Nublack line of shotgun shells was produced by Winchester starting around 1903, using black powder. This one is pre-1921, because in 1920 they changed the labeling of the gauge from "No. 12" to "12 Ga". So this cartridge head is from sometime between 1903 and 1920.
In 1854, Jacob Schuyler, Marcellus Hartley and Malcomb Graham formed the Schuyler, Hartley & Graham Sporting Goods Company in New York City. Destined to become one of the largest sporting goods houses in the world, it provided cartridges and rifles produced by other manufacturers to the Union Army during the Civil War and amassed a fortune. In 1866, the company acquired two small cartridge companies, and the following year re-incorporated as the Union Metallic Cartridge Company (UMC) in Bridgeport, Connecticut. By 1900, Hartley was the sole owner of the company. U.M.C. known as the Union Metallic Cartridge Company was founded in 1867 by Marcellus Hartley in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They manufactured a variety of shells up until 1911 at which time the company was merged with Remington.
As always good luck and HH!
Had the ATpro wide open and was not getting a peep. Then in the thickest part and lowest elevation (marshy ground) I get a chirp. After 10 min of complete silence I was ready to dig anything. That's when I got the Barber. And 1899 to boot. Only 4 inches deep, just blind luck. All and all it was a miserable experience but one for the story books.
The link below is how I found out the key was from the 60s. I used a wire brush to get it clean. I'm sure I took off any color it had under the crud.
http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-641927/vintage-ford-uncut-ignition-key-mint-1960s-must-see-w-keychain.html
First key I found actually worth something. $12.00
This is an old Winchester 12-gauge shotgun shell, with just the metal head remaining. The paper casing has rotted away. The Nublack line of shotgun shells was produced by Winchester starting around 1903, using black powder. This one is pre-1921, because in 1920 they changed the labeling of the gauge from "No. 12" to "12 Ga". So this cartridge head is from sometime between 1903 and 1920.
In 1854, Jacob Schuyler, Marcellus Hartley and Malcomb Graham formed the Schuyler, Hartley & Graham Sporting Goods Company in New York City. Destined to become one of the largest sporting goods houses in the world, it provided cartridges and rifles produced by other manufacturers to the Union Army during the Civil War and amassed a fortune. In 1866, the company acquired two small cartridge companies, and the following year re-incorporated as the Union Metallic Cartridge Company (UMC) in Bridgeport, Connecticut. By 1900, Hartley was the sole owner of the company. U.M.C. known as the Union Metallic Cartridge Company was founded in 1867 by Marcellus Hartley in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They manufactured a variety of shells up until 1911 at which time the company was merged with Remington.
As always good luck and HH!
