[UPDATE] Random chick borrowed ATpro finds random stuff needing ID and one historic American thing.

As I posted yesterday and again, if it’s too soon to post my finds, please let me know. You can’t offend me. I want to write a comprehensive account of my detecting but you might find it boring but here goes anyway:

I went to a park north of downtown Los Angeles and found SO many pull tabs from cans. Is there a metal detector that can screen these out??? Ugh. So annoying. Who litters anyway?!

OK, so here is what I found: http://imgur.com/a/wZLxj

• Pennies
• A bullet
• An American flag pin
• A piece off a hippy type Jim Morrison belt
• Something I can’t identify that’s shaped like a tube. Can you help?
• Another something with grapes on it that I can’t identify

and my favorite

• A Ford manufacturing River Rouge Tool Check-out “chit" from Dearborn, Michigan, 1920’s

Bottom line, it has a real person’s employee badge number and according to my google-fu, they were a very early employee in the Glass Department of Ford. The letter on the tag indicated where in the factory that person worked so N stood for the glass manufacturing (Windshields, windows, etc ALL made there).

You would take your chit to the tool shed and exchange it for a tool. Then you would return your tool for the chit and repeat. There’s photos of them online at Fordbarn.com but most of them are well into the 7000 badge number. Later chits don’t have the R (for river). Ford's River Rouge Factory wiki

Pretty cool this is such an early badge number (#485).

Why do I like this tag? I mean, how did it get here under the ground in a park when it was employee use only? Maybe it was someone’s fathers and they put it on their keychain and lost it at the park? Maybe someone bought it at an antique shop?

Anyway, thanks for the encouragement to get out there and temporarily "borrow" someone's detector, mwhahaha.

The boring stuff: I followed the Code of Ethics in the sidebar. No one mentioned I might be hurting cute little worms but I worked around them and made sure they were comfy back in their beds when I was done. Still…it was a surprise.

Lots of dogs came up to me and wanted to help dig holes. And this felt more like a sport than a hobby. It’s a LOT of physical and mental work!

Finally an inadvertent thanks to u/true_vikings for the use of the overly duct-taped metal detector.