THE Great Fred locke dig...

By Mike Spadafora; posted December 2, 2012
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here's an abbreviated list of goodies we found in The great Victor dig of 2009… We found a concentrated pocket of Fred Locke stuff surrounded by later post-1950 Victor products ... We have no idea how the stuff ended up where it was ... to bad there was not more ....!!! this is the total list of pieces recovered from this site … that were dug on six occasions. The first in summer 2007 others in 2009 in the fall . Dug by Jim Kimble, Mike Spadafora, Paul Greaves.

U-969 white gutter, mark 6-1, plus 40 percent of a second specimen[id=196124902] U-3 white blond warty, marked U-3 "Thomas yellow" marked Fred Locke pony U-608a white, mark 1-8[359067671] U??? no name Fred Locke pin type mine insulator [id=263045016] M-2332 top marking 7-1 ,[359067671] Dead end spool, marking, 6-1 85% complete[id=263655493], U-339b "Loop " marking 1-8 on the top, mint![id=265062845], U-339b no name four repairable specimens [id=359068683] U-339b three non repairable damaged specimens U-964 ultra blond early two part mold type marking 6-1 U-39- brown marked Two no name white bushings Five mint (and one repaired) warty M-2332 bases all marked with a Fred Locke on the top[id=329750897], Pieces of M-2335 top Pieces of U-939d brown Damaged U-259a brown- U-925- brown repaired Two Murdoch patent cleats One marked white pin base 40 pound glazed brown wall tube (in background) One brown warty pin base Several broken fred locke M-2430's Top crown to a Fred Locke #331 multipart(unreported)

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