I managed to hunt for an hour and a half this evening before the sun went down. I went down to Riverside park again since it is near my house.
The very first diggable signal I got I thought was a trigger for a gun but when I got home and cleaned it it looked like this:
It is a shoe! I still think this was a trigger to a gun but I cannot imagine why they would have shaped it like a shoe. If it isn’t a trigger for a gun then I have no clue as to what it may have been used for. The style of the shoe makes me think this relic is old.
****UPDATE***
The shoe is an antique lady’s pocket knife missing the blade. It was made by W. H. Morley and Sons. Thanks go to John M who identified the shoe.
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Then I found some clad including a number of Jefferson nickels. Then I hit a 1939 wheat. I just love finding old coins at a “hunted out” park. I also
found a Peters shot shell of a gauge I don’t see very often –21.
Finally, I couldn’t take the cold anymore and decided to call it a day. Still, I chose to scan the area where I found the wheat one last time and darn it if I didn’t get one of those iffy signals I’ve talked about in recent posts. I dug the target and at about 6 inches, I found another Rosie; this time a 1953
I just love finding silver at a hunted out park! Oh, and I love my XP Deus metal detector.
Thank you for looking!
That’s an antique Bakelite pocket knife dating from the 1800s. Missing the blade. See http://tinyurl.com/a94wor9 for a pic of a similar one. Pity you can’t take an extended holiday in England – detectorists are turning up some amazing stuff over there!
John, thank you for stopping by and thank you for identifying the shoe for me!