A Few Of Guessologists Finds

The Buffaloes were a club. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Antediluvian_Order_of_Buffaloes I suspect this badge is for one of the local organisations.

Great interesting bunch of finds there.

Do you reckon it's a worn badge? Its curved heavily with four holes as if it was a brand attached to a wooden handle of a tool by my reckoning. I figured that since Kaighin was a Bright local, it was borrowing the name of Mount Buffalo just next door.

Just snagged my oldest threepence after trying the nox out in Field 1, 5 tones, F2-1 and max sensitivity in really loamy soil. Sounded a bit bigger than it was, I expected a half penny to pop out.

I thought maybe one of these too.

Guessologist said:

Do you reckon it's a worn badge? Its curved heavily with four holes as if it was a brand attached to a wooden handle of a tool by my reckoning. I figured that since Kaighin was a Bright local, it was borrowing the name of Mount Buffalo just next door.

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Probably not worn as you surmise. Since Mt Buffalo was nearby perhaps a local carter?

I've come across "The Buffs" in many places (and drunk at some of them) so I thought it may have been a local chapter although the image is a bit different to what you have found.

Anyway, a great conversation piece.

May I suggest that the Buffalo item is the branding head badge on the front of a bicycle? Similar to these .

Ok,after a little research,T C Kaighin was the President of Bright Local Council and also was elected the Captain of The Bright Cycle Club according to this article from Trove on the 23 September 1899.

Good research Eldorado - Looks right.

Oh nice! I reckon that's the right thread. When I first dug it I did immediately think of a bike badge, figured it would be an old Malvern Star or something but when I cleaned it off and read it I went way down a different track....

Ok, looks like there was a Buffalo Bicycle Company in Bright between about 1904-1908.



Ephemeral finds are the best...

Found a tiny little copy of the Miraculous Medal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_Medal



The reverse isn't the normal one however, Google tells me it's St Anthony, the patron saint of lost things....



Might have to keep St Anthony in my pocket while detecting for good luck erfect:

Not many finds lately, got access to a big paddock lately and snagged the 1854 and 1918 threepences, and the 1901 penny. Not huge target density unfortunately and they are pretty deep since it's an area that gets silted over occasionally by the creek that runs through it. The shield is probably off some old horse tack, and the 1916 penny was just a rando in the bush.



And this little belt centerpiece guy came from my favourite old early 1860s slab hut site where I pulled a bunch of tokens out of, pretty rare to latch onto a good target there these days. Looks a bit more like a soldier than a cricketer?

Some more nice finds to add to your array :Y:
Youve had some beauties lately... im feeling a bit of envy :drooling:

Yeah it's hard to keep perspective some days! I'm at the point where it takes me a pre-Federation find just to get me to normal in this addiction. I think I'm through the honeymoon period where the easy finds fly out of the ground and have to work for them now. I reckon that I'm averaging about one 'good' find per about 2-3 hours of detecting now, and have to get a bit creative in how I tackle sites to keep them coming. A family friend just bought an old property going back to the 1890s that is begging for detecting though, I'll have to hit it up to get a new sugar rush soon!

I know what you mean re finding pre-federation items, though being thin on the ground makes finding them even more worthwhile and satisfying - something that I accept tat won't happen every outing. I do like your little cricketer, usually it's the buckle missing the little fella. :Y:

After saying that, I went back to my old Police station site, which had gone pretty dead on me, with a plan for hunting relics: Nox 600 to Field 1, F1 and sensitivity very low at 5. Oh man that paid off, I quickly settled on a 2x2m patch that often falsed a lot for me before and dug anything that even looked half like a non-ferrous signal. The first hole, which gave something like an inconsistent 14 ID had all this in it:



And the spoons did not stop coming, this was the result after about half an hour on this little patch:



There's silver plated spoons (all same hallmark, will take some work to read), round lead shot, an agate cab, a fob watch bar, buttons, a tiny thumbwheel (PATENT MAY 18(5?)4 ???? MERIDEN CT), slate pencils, one of many big square nails, some other random things and two half pennies.



1862 and 1884. At no point did the detector sound like it had a clean signal on a coin! My favourite thing has to be the slate pencils though. All this was with the 11" coil too, I gotta try out the 6" with this program here, I thought I had slammed it hard before...

Not as many items with the 6" this time, mainly buttons and a wierd sphere which turned out to be an extremely distressed marble. However, I finally found some police paraphernalia at the old police station! That far left button has a crown on it and says POLICE FORCE VICTORIA, reverse says EXTRA SUPERFINE. This site hasn't been an actual police station for at least a century.

A bit of persistence not far from where I found the groat earlier paid off with this spill, all within a 2m patch and 2-3 inches from surface:





How about the grouping on the dates!

Thats awesome man. Bet you were happy.

Nice spill. Coins are in great condition.

Cheers, I reckon it was just about as much fun as you can have with a detector in 10 minutes save for maybe digging a big silver. Went back today and got donuts...

Ha! That's how it goes sometimes. It's often when your expectations are at their lowest that you strike something special.