My cousin in Arizona sent me a box of dug relics his father had picked up on a farm in Virginia many years ago. He didn't know where in VA specifically.

Mostly they are 58 calibur miniballs and Williams cleaning rounds. But the assortment of stuff at this address on the web are, for the most part, less familiar to me. (except for item #5 which is a 58 cal miniball for size comparison.)

http://www.forttejon.org/ga3/mysterystuff.jpg

Item #1 is a flat disk with hubs on both sides. I can't even tell if it's metal or some kind of stone. There is a groove that rings around the hub on the side visible. No groove on the other side. In cross section it looks like a miniature "flying saucer".

Item #2 looks like it's brass, hollow - a pennant finial maybe?

Item #3 is a hollow cylinder. One end has a patterned shape in it (like what you'd find on a socket to attach it to the socket wrench but much more open than that). The other end is just the open end of the cylinder. I think it's metal but not lead.It's fairly thin - but not as thin as a shell casing.

The bullets, apart from #6, appear to be an odd assortment of caliburs. For pistols? or ?

I have no idea whether all these items are period, although that's the implication since they were all dug from the same place.

Any ideas on what they might be?

Thanks for your help!

Don worth@ucla.edu

• Re: Need help identifying some CW relics jeff 13:00:27 4/05/99 (0)