Goldpick's 2019 XP Deus finds

Very very nice! Go team XP Australia! :trophy:

Love the look of those Britannia's just beautiful .....What camera do you use again to take your pictures? :Y:

golddiggerart said:

Love the look of those Britannia's just beautiful .....What camera do you use again to take your pictures? :Y:

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Thanks Golddigg, nothing special for the pics, just use my Galaxy tab for the finds (can be hit and miss on focusing), and the Samsung S9 for the field pics.

The coins do have a very green patina, though if you get them on the right angle they come up with an almost silver look and with good detail.

Those old pennies have got a relly interesting patina for sure. Some nice buttons in there too, haven't heard of many of the makers. Seems like there were quite a few local makers of them round the turn of the century.

Dave79 said:

Those old pennies have got a relly interesting patina for sure. Some nice buttons in there too, haven't heard of many of the makers. Seems like there were quite a few local makers of them round the turn of the century.

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Yes some of them are from local tailors, I have had interest from collectors in the past after buttons unique to this area.

Here is a pic of the shop where the Mackenzie buttons originated from in Mount Gambier.

Impressive and inspiring!

Another quick run to clean up on the remainder targets at the 1850's site, no coins unfortuantely though did come up with a thimble, small two piece naval button, fob watch winder and plenty of musket balls. The fob watch winder was from J.M. McBean, Collins Street, Melbourne (circa 1880-90's). Now to wait for the crap weathe to clear. :|

Nicely presented as always :Y: Shame there wasn't a coin for you this time.

Those fob watch winders would make a nice collection.Tailormarc found one this week as well.

Mate ....You have been cleaning up that site for ages.
Judging by all the targets found for a quick hunt , you will be cleaning up that site for a lot longer .Still plenty of interesting finds :Y:

Popped out to another former house site yesterday, still a lot of junk in the ground masking finds, though managed a few keepers throughout the session. Both the dog tag and sixpence were found in a track winrow, so may have to go back and investigate for more targets away from the actual house site. My favourite item for the day was the ornate the leaf broach, the oldest coin was a 1924 penny.

Been away lately, hence haven't had much time to detect - this was last night's several hour effort on the same house site as previous.

Picked up 1948-49 & 1939-40 dog tags, Oz military forces button, couple of sixpences and a bit of trench art 1939 penny. The old toy car is pretty cool, still got all of its wheels which is rare.

Finds are starting to dwindle now, was a marathon effort just to find two silvers after swearing not to go home without one.

Look at that c a r...... :Y:

I spent last night wandering around a large park with the Deus and 11" coil in tow, there are very few targets in the park including modern junk - though the downside is that you need to grid for hours on end to find anything of worth. First target was the Downtown token, thought it was a foreign coin at first and just threw it in the bag (too dark) - the other was a National Parks & Wildlife token/coin from the Naracoorte fossil caves, no idea how old that is.

Next up was the cool South Australian Railways Ambulance pin, guessing that dates back to the early 1900's, need to do more research on that one, then followed by the vintage slouch hat pin made by AJ Parkes.

I wasn't expecting much silver on this outing, I had found Victorian coins previously though mainly coppers and they were found reasonably deep. Was really surprised to see a fantastic looking 1899 shilling pop out from the leaf little at the base of a tree - it was only a couple of inches down and in great condition (aside from grey oxidation). Not far away yet another near pristine silver, an 1891 threepence that must have been dropped from new. The rest of the night was rounded of with a pair of coppers, an 1877 Vic penny, and an excellent 1907 Edward penny.

Pretty much every decimal coin found had found the blades of the mower. :argh:

All up a pretty satisfying night, and plenty of exercise.

Wow some really nice coins you found though.Well done :Y:

Wow, Goldpick great finds.
Is the car, Campbells Bluebird?
Mackka

Mackka said:

Wow, Goldpick great finds.
Is the car, Campbells Bluebird?
Mackka

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Thanks Macca, turns out it is a Dinky Meccano 23B Hotchkiss racing car from between 1935-48 (pic below).

The railways ambulance pin looks to be WW2 period from some research, here's the original item with the enamelling intact.

Magnificent!

Awesome hunts! The toy car is in mint condition and the silvers are a very nice Easter surprise. That thrippy must have been dropped before 1892.