CanadianBottles
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Wow, that is incredible! I was imagining it was going to be a rusty and corroded sword you found metal detecting or something, but that thing is stunning, and in fantastic condition! That's a curb find of a lifetime!These are some old pictures from when I first found it, I have since cleaned it up:
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I found it in the garbage one cold snowy Feburary morning in 2015. It's a non commissioned staff officer's sword from the Union Army. The blade is German imported made in the 1850's. I am very persistent when it comes to treasure hunting, checking odd places constantly even if I find nothing for weeks on end, because sometimes a pattern forms, a "find pattern" I call it, where you will statistically ALWAYS find something good in a particular place if you have the patience and persistence to keep checking. I have applied this technique to bottle hunting as well when I got into it in 2020.