Nothing spectacular, but cool to me.

bruinvikes · Mar 28, 2017

I didn't find any silver or gold or anything really great, but I did find some pretty cool things. I found a religious medallion, a key, some sort of C-clamp and an old lock. I also found a 1941 wheat penny (not pictured).

I did some research on the lock and couldn't find much.
It is stamped C.T. Fraim Lancaster PA

I posted a side view of the lock with a quarter for size reference so you could see how bulky this piece is.

From what I could find out is that the company was started by three brothers and one drifted off to do his own thing. The company closed in 1945. The lock was found in a park that has a building being operated by a very small town police department that rarely even gets used. I've only seen police their a couple of times in my almost two years of hunting this site. The building once was a school that was built in 1938.

I also found $1.19 in clad

Thanks for looking and happy hunting to all!

DIGGER27 · Mar 28, 2017

What, no silver....punk! :lol:

I did a lot of research on this lock company because I recently found one of theirs too and mine has to be over 100 years old and probably more like 110-120 years from a pic I found in one of their old catalogues...also because of that handcuff shackle design.
Your is even older probably back to the 1800's so...great find!
A real professional detectorist would have found the key too but...whatever.

bruinvikes · Mar 28, 2017

DIGGER27 said:
What, no silver....punk!

A real professional detectorist would have found the key too but...whatever.

Well, when I found silver yesterday it made you curse, so I didn't want to upset you to bad :laughing:

A real professional, now that's funny! :laughing:

NCtoad · Mar 28, 2017

I like that lock! I'd love to find something old like that.

DIGGER27 · Mar 28, 2017

bruinvikes said:
Well, when I found silver yesterday it made you curse, so I didn't want to upset you to bad

A real professional, now that's funny!

Me, get upset and curse you out...never!
I am always in control, always on an even keel and calm.
Here is one of my typical days at my job.

bruinvikes · Mar 28, 2017

DIGGER27 · Mar 28, 2017

Yea, laugh it up, funnyboy.....

bruinvikes · Mar 28, 2017

DIGGER27 said:
Yea, laugh it up, funnyboy.....

I just found more info about the lock company. The company was in operation from 1879-1945. From what I'm seeing from research, it might be a railroad lock. There is a couple of sets of tracks about 200 yards from where I found it.

Ricki7 · Mar 28, 2017

Cool lock and finds , congrats , ,,,,,HH

sataro · Mar 28, 2017

Congrats on a nice old lock! Nice interesting find...

# 2 backhoe · Mar 28, 2017

The clamp was made for patching tires.

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Darktower007 · Mar 28, 2017

Nice finds!

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bruinvikes · Mar 28, 2017

# 2 backhoe said:
The clamp was made for patching tires.

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Thank you! I figured it was something like that since the end on the threaded piece is made from plastic.

bruinvikes · Mar 28, 2017

Thank you everyone!

# 2 backhoe · Mar 28, 2017

The clamp is for patching inertubes / tires

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remmy · Mar 28, 2017

Cool lock, cool to me because it is from my local area. Congrats!

KirkS · Mar 28, 2017

I think that's a really cool assortment of finds. Keep it up!

cellrdwellr · Mar 28, 2017

Awesome relics thanks for sharing and happy hunting!

Crackerjack · Mar 28, 2017

# 2 backhoe said:
The clamp is for patching inertubes / tires

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I can remember my dad using one of those back in the 1960's to patch tire inner tubes...I think it is still here with the rest of his stuff...he didn't ever throw much of anything away.

DIGGER27 · Mar 28, 2017

BTW...the technical name for that patching tool is a Vulcanizer.

Nothing spectacular, but cool to me.

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