I think I just had my best silver day detecting ever- silvered three times!
kevinstang
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Nice day, so took a quick trip back to the park where I found the old milk bottles, just when I think this place is hunted out- I dig a 1935 Washington- my oldest US quarter to date ( getting closer to a standing lib!). Swept the area close by and found a 1942 Merc. Continued to walk along and found a partial bottle sticking out of the ground, looks like it may have been a very old soda bottle- anyone heard of Gypsum brand?- glass is very thick on bottle and has a blueish green tint to it. Bottom is very thick and dished in. I searched for the top broken piece by digging around it but couldn't find it. Anyways, I walked around a bit more and started to circle back and found the 1928 Merc- 3 silvers in one day- I never remember having found more than 2 in one day before. As I was walking out of the woods I walked through an area that had been recently raked and dug a weak shallow signal- looked to be part of wrist band I from a ladies watch I thought to myself, then I looked down and a couple of feet away there it was- the main part of watch itself laying right on top of the ground, an older looking Bulova model. Anyways here's a couple of quick photos of everything I ended up finding:
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Five silvers in a day is my record.
Though I have my SLQ, I still have never found a Washington from the 1930s, so congrats there! My oldest quarter is an 1855 w/arrows.
That's a cool old bottle, probably from the first decade or so of the 1900s, I would think. Too bad it's not intact, but oh, so close!
The watch is terrific, too. An oldie!
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Congrats.
I like the watch, is it still ticking?
<< <i>I like the watch, is it still ticking? >>
I think it quit ticking along time ago...