I just bought a rudimentary introductory metal detector after watching these videos. I live in Western mass, not too far from you!. I have a nine-year-old and a 14-year-old that because of our love of the movie goonies love treasure hunting . lol!!! With this new set up, we started in our front yard for about 15 min. We found a quarter that was dated with my wife’s birth year, but also found an iron toy truck. A toy that some child played with over 80 to a 100 years ago. The light in my own children’s eye lit up, with these discoveries. Thanks to you I truly think we now have a life long family hobby!
I have to thank you again for the visual beeps. Some people don't realize how terrible beeps can be when you're hard of hearing and wear ear buds. I usually have them turned up so i can hear, and i can't deal with annoying beeps. Hats off to ya😊
Brad, at 10:47 you said that "you guessed that they (the Boutwell and the Robinson & Ballou tokens) were owned by the same people." Probably not. Boutwell (a miller) issued almost 40 varieties of his token which (is believed) was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury, CT. R&B (grocers) issued around 15 varieties of their token. Not sure where they were struck. cf Fuld, US Civil War Store Cards, 3rd edition. Best to you!
You know Brad. When you found that little lead cup and said how rare it is to fine the Remains of Children...'s toys I almost spit my tea out? When I was young, in my teens, we moved into an old brownstone in S Chicago and it had a coal flap and a chute that went into the basement bin I " earned" the task of shoveling out the old coal and taking it out by the 5 gallon bucket. My stepfather at the time was a cop and while I was digging I found bones?? I freaked out cause the house was creepy enough as is without a skeleton in the coal bin.He took the bones to work and had them looked at by someone. He said they were dog bones but I saw the piece of jaw and dogs don't have flat molars? But I was 12-13. The seller was a plumber and there were bins all lined up with elbows and stuff. Tons of them, I also hauled those out by the bucket. And 3 old paint cans. They were heavy, too heavy for paint so I opened them. They were full of pocket change and rolled pennies. I have them in a gallon bag in my house somewhere? I'm 52 now. The silver change I spent but the pennies were just pennies I kept for 40 years. No Large Cents for me.....drink BI***ES !!! I miss Banana Eddie on the eps..
Been following you for years. Every year your videos just get better. The addition of the numerical and audio as a visual is great. Only one I’ve seen to do it. Stay happy Brad.
I used to cut kindling with a little hatchet just like that one ,40 years ago as a young child. Memories.. Enjoyed from Southwest Tennessee once again 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The people who made the store tokens kept the dies from a job and often reused them for others, they were thrifty Yankees. You guys need to go over this place with a fine tooth comb! Can't wait for more, cya next week!
Lots of good guesses on the hatchet head. I was a green woodcarver for 25 years specializing in wooden spoons. I used a hatchet similar to this for the initial hewing of the shape. Some hewing hatchets are called side axes or carpenters hatchets and are flat on one side and beveled on the other to make the flat planing chops. You strike with the hatchet going up the side and then come down in one long stroke to make a flat surface. For the curves you file different bevels on each side of another hatchet head to help the axe roll around a curve. Your's could very well be a salesman's sample but it could also be cleaned up, sharpened and used for hewing out a cooking spoon or any of a myriad of hand carved items the colonial pioneers needed.
I’ve got an earring almost identical (from a small shop in New Mexico) to the one you found. If I were you I’d have to keep coming back to this site after all of the interesting things you’ve found. You make Friday mornings so interesting, thanks.
I love the sliding indicator at the top of the screen! I've never swung a metal detector, so I never understood the % numbers you'd quote when deciding to dig. So fascinating! ❤
What a tremendous location you've got there! I have to say that I absolutely love the grid along the top- very innovative! The coins and everything else were great too- well done!
Very first artifact i found when i started this hobby 2+ yrs ago was an axe head. I hardly knew what i was doing then and am etill learning. I have been hooked on this hobby ever since!
10:15 Robinson & Ballou civil war store card. I have a couple of those! 👍👍 I believe both the Oliver Boutwell and Robinson & Ballou store cards were minted by Scovill Mfg. Co., hence the similarity in the design.
That earring is probably from India or China. Temu sells them by the bucket loads, for about five bucks a pair. Somebofy should have been wearing earring ptotectors to keep it in their ear! Btw, Brad, earring protectors are little silicon sleeves that you put on the ear wire after you put it through the earring hole in your ear. It slides up to sit right behind the ear very snug on the wire. It keeps the swinging of the earring from making the wire work out of your ear, resulting in a lost earring! Great video, as always!
Another great video Brad, nice finds and great since of the history there. I look forward to your adventures every week, I know you don't clean your coins but I do when I can, in the field I've used Tabasco sauce, it takes a few minutes but does a great job and doesn't hurt the coin.👍❤️🇺🇸
I've seen one like that in the home of a woman that cooked on a wood burning oven. She used it in the kitchen to split her pre cut wood in to smaller pieces. Maybe that was it's purpose. Love your content
Awesome! Love your channel. I met you in walmart and I was like a kid meeting a celebrity. You said you have to hand over all finds at this location. I bet he's happy, and you get to have fun. Looking forward to more videos now that it's getting to be really nice weather😀
Possibly a salesman’s sample? Stops at tavern, asks everyone if they are interested in his axes? I’ve seen sad irons, wood stoves and other miniatures in cast iron, that were all salesman’s samples!
I have no way of proving this but as soon as you showed the tone bouncing on the big iron target. I said to myself. It's big chunk of iron, it's an axe. Then I was in shock when you pulled out a hatched head.
Just in the brief side views of the small ax , it has the look of a small planing ax . Something used to flatten the side of a small log or finish a larger log .
I am so glad you're back out in the fields!! I miss this in the winter when the weather doesn't permit it. If Vermont was anything like Illinois, this past winter was brutal - we got 24" of snow in one week!
Brad, so happy you do not have snow. I hope it extends your treasure hunting and takes you well into Fall. It interesting, this no snow business… as my bff made her yearly pilgrimage to Lake Tahoe to enjoy her time share. She sent pics for me, as that daggum lake is pure magic to me! Anyhoo… the mountains barely, and I mean barely had snow on the tippy tops. Where they are usually snow capped well into summer. The great update was with her pic of the boat ramp from her place to the water. 2022 they had to climb down the ladder and it was a 10 foot walk on the sand to the waters edge. 2023 It was a 5 foot walk. This year 2024… drop your boat in, or dive right off…as it is full to the top of the dock! 🥰🥹😊😀🥳🤩. Oh happy day, it made my heart swell! I will never see it in person again in my lifetime… but man, with her pics and my childhood to midlife memories… I’m all good! Just had to share, take care. 💕 TK in KY
Those tokens from the same store might have been given out by the two owners as a competition perhaps…whoever’s tokens were redeemed the most in a month won a prize! Since that earring wasn’t stamped “sterling”, it was probably locally made, and thus a lot older than you think
Hey Brad great hunt there. Love all the Buttons and Spoons. Congrats on the 1918 Silver Walker Half Dollar and Silver Earring. Love the little Hatchet. Hope you will be able to go back there again. Looks like a great place to hunt. Take Care
EXCELLENT!…. Ime English, live in Australia now. There is little history here, and watching English detectorist shows? Boring. Ure history is magnificent, very interesting. Well done. Just subscribed and look forward to many more posts. 👏👏👏👏
Brad the 1863 token you found is pretty kool but they also have tokens that say bread or milk these tokens were especially for these items so people could get them during the civil war...
