William
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Couple of really nice agates from Tuesday. When they are this big, I call them "Chunky Monkeys" 😊
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Awesome! Found the other half! Anyone want to throw out a guess about what it is? 🤔
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It's nice having both knobs for each set...I really like all the advertising from the 50's, 60's and 70's myself. Can't be alot of plastic out there that is intact like these pieces are. And too think it all survived collapsing buildings and mother nature!
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And Patty thought the bottle that you mentioned was possibly Bullwinkle? Seems she remembers something like that from her childhood....
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Definitely! It's been a blast! Next step is more cleaning and then more pics 😊
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Found some more, I'll post them later!
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Heading back out there shortly...rain predicted for Wednesday and Thursday so a nice, sunny day for digging for a bit. Still have plenty of pics too post from previous trips yet. I'll have to get busy with that later today 😊
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Someone at some point did alot of traveling and collected (and worked), alot of various rock, stone, minerals, etc. Nice examples of what I have found recently. The picture is me yesterday in the "honey hole" inside a collapsed shed. I was about a foot and a half down discovering all these goodies...petrified wood, agates, quartz, crystals, you name it!
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Well, it's actually a place not very far from Patty's parents farm in Northeastern Iowa. She used to go on walks years ago and knew of the property. After we got together, she caught the "treasure hunting" bug and remembered this property as being abandoned for many years. So with permission, we started visiting the site weeks ago. We go a couple times a week. As you can see from the pictures, most everything has collapsed, most recently the house itself (it was still standing around 2010, Patty was actually inside of it back then!) Lots of fun! It's amazing what we find out there. So many different time periods appear to be represented pertaining to what we are finding. Some things are just below the surface, other things a foot deep or more!
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Haven't posted here since the last week of October, so have to play a little bit of catchup after having been too the site a few times since then....comment as you will because it's going to be alot of pics 😊
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The 0.64 Pelt I dug up in Iowa the week before last...
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Nice "scary" mibs! Like the last one 👍
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Lol!
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Thanks for the ID assistance on some of this stuff, my friends! Seems like I have just enough time to post and not enough to research lol...
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Just the letter "P" encircled. Here's some measurements...
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In brief...the drinking glass was a nice find, wish I could have captured the gold leaf pattern that mixes with the white...the doorknob with both plates is awesome, appears to be aluminum and was on the rotting remains of the back door too the house...the leather reins, bridles, etc., were a nice find considering they were half buried....the V9 plate I think went to a stovetop....scythe blade #4.....more vintage spark plugs...what's left of a wagon wheel. I'll have to grab the wood remnants when I go back....a small tripod/easel?....an all metal, long handled scraper....some really cool horse gear....really nice 1920's compact, missing its contents but still nice. I think there was also silk on one side...fun!!! And of course more nice mineral deposits 😊
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Some of our most recent findings...
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Still has the cork in it too, or what's left of it..Try it? No freaking way...
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Only one I have ever seen in hand, one of my favorite jars now!
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Old, freshly dug whiskey bottle, maybe 60's or 70's...
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Some pretty cool specimens! As you can see, one piece was in the process of being polished. Another one also has what obviously appears as metallic properties. Couple of nice crystals and no idea on the reddish one. From what I have noted, these folks traveled so maybe southwestern in origin? Not aware of any stone like that in the midwest?
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I know, right? Those diamond shaped Indentations got my brain working overtime....and now the magnetic properties...iron ore maybe? Or dare I say meteorite? I don't think that's too crazy considering the wide variety of rock that was piled/buried. It was all brought in and put there. Collected in my opinion...
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I will note that the last photo does show what I thought was metal, and it is. A magnet sticks....
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We found some more cool "treasures" digging today, but the most intriguing thing is this stone. It's definitely something different. You can see the size of it next to my hand. Not too terribly big, right? But it weighs close to 15 pounds on the scale!!!! Here's some pics of all 4 sides and each end. Thoughts?
