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    Found Lake Superior Beach After Erosion- Babyfoot I.D. Help

    We were at the inlaws in Houghton, Mi. There's an area of the beach that suffered major erosion and my daughter/wife/I were taking a walk and picking rocks and stuff.Apologize if the pics are a bit dark.It's an almost forest green dark green color. The area in the rounded part is lighter...
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    The 2340 I found

    2340 I found in a mucky "lagoon" next to a hydro dam. Tons of 5part all the way down to these in there. I pulled a 5part out that was mostly broken. The hardware/connectors are all in great shape though. Might clean them up and give them to my wife.couple pics. the watery pic is the lagoon with...
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    An insulator I pulled out of the water.

    Posted this in unexpected, but going to xpost it in case it's not seen. was at the dam on the Menominee River next to an old meeting hall. Son was there for a grad party and I had been told that the shoreline where I was at had bottles.I was standing on a small point that makes a lagoon behind...
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    More Reference Books and such...

    I've been hitting our library everyday because they've been putting reference books out for .25cents each.these are the newest ones...the president one is a 2 vol setthe Oxford Art is a 5 vol setthe Manufacturing one is a 2 huge vol setthe dictionary of religion is a full setwife is going to...
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    The advantages of running a booth at a gun/knife show

    Besides selling knives and meeting new clients/vendors.I always wander around and check out each booth. There's always something just lying there that I want. Which means I call the wife and ask if I can spend money on it.....A new couple had a table across from ours and I took a walk over to...
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    Last Keg of Bosch Beer at Schmidt's Corner-Pics

    My inlaws live in Houghton, Mi. Father in law grew up in Liminga, which is 10-15miles nw of Houghton. That farm is now our hunting camp. There's a bar near the camp that's called Schmidt's Corner.There was a Schmidt's Corner gas station/small store across the parking lot, but that closed years...
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    LEON...pics

    cpl pics of what I can find so far at home...
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    Sweet find at local library.... 10cents each

    went to the library after a dr. appointment to look for books. They always have a few carts full of books for .10 each.I snagged all of these reference books and Prarie-Cuisine from the Heartland (i've been a cookbook junkie lately) for .10 each. 1999 who's who in the world2000 vol 1 a-k vol 2...
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    A few handmade knives

    met an older couple at a gun/knife show we had a booth at. Walked past their booth and had to turn around. He has good hands. he forges his own steel (unless he falls into an old Marbles blade or something), gathers the wood for his knives on family/his/friend lands and does the leatherwork...
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    Few Things I picked up recently....

    Been selling off a few hundred lps that my neighbor gave me before they moved to Colorado. All are classic records.They've been selling decently. Whenever I get to a thrift store or st vinny I see what they have. The St. Vin near the inlawssells their records for 25-50 cents apiece. They...
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    Introduced digging to wife's friend today

    my wife tells me a couple of weeks ago that her friend from work has a huge homestead and got excited when wife told her about bottles i dig and detecting.we finally made it there today.so far 1911-40's...but good stuff during that time.a few local meds, ink bottles... decent stuff that she'll...
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    $3.99 find at GW today

    DAughter, wife and I were at GW today and after picking up a few books and some decent 45's, I found this... No price. I've known the guy behind the register for over 10yrs (he's been there forever) and he sold it to me for 3.99... a Toshiba lk-1850 from the early 80's....
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    Nice surprise in a late 1800's book daughter found

    Meryl and I were at GW one day looking at books. She finds this really sweet looking book. The cover has pretty intricate embossing on it. Published in 1888 (1st impression because she revised it)..still hard to find this copy... Did some research and found out that it was quite the book in...
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    I may have a very rare one....

    In the post I put up awhile ago about the insulators I had in a plastic tub in the basement, I id'd one of my insulators as a 160...it's actually a 162.1... here are the specs after spending about 5hrs reading lee brewer articles, measuring over and over, using a loupe etc... The different...
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    Giraffe Bone, Sheep Horn and Pine Cone Knives

    We always end up with the weird one of a kind experimental knives that BRK makes. the group we had had before this one consisted of 3 ugly burl handle knives, a cactus handle and a corn cob handle.... they all sold within a couple of hours of listing. We had a booth at a local show last...
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    Milk/Cream I had forgotten about...very small

    my knowledge of milk items is very minimal.... this bottle seems like a single serving of milk or cream or a baby bottle? it holds roughly 2.5oz
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    My Habitat For Humanity ReStore find

    I don't know why I go there...their pricing makes me want to mouthbeat someone... they had some quart aqua ball jars...for 25 bucks... i told the guy if he wanted more and wanted to pay me 25 per, i'd be back with a few bags.. i scored a few books for .75 each 1951 better homes and gardens...
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    Couple I came across

    finally..saw 2 jars that aren't aqua ball jars.....wife's grandmother has so many of them in trash bags in the farm dump...sick of them. An amber wan eta cocoa boston jar
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    Couple of New Milks

    i'm ignorant on milks..other than the few i've found digging... oak park dairy...
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    please bear with the pics

    anything stand out in these pics? person i know has boxes full..."back in the day" he worked for a bottler...plus he digs... there are also some empty 7up, coke, pepsi and other wood crates....

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