some of my collections

texasvarmit

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have been collecting all my life
clay pipes:
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cannon balls and broadaxe
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a few of the civil war artifacts found by me in Virginia 1972-73
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more stuff:
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bottlehunterofcoscob

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Absolutely beautiful artifacts! We bottle guys love to see quality glass like your stuff. Post them in the Bottles & Glass forum under Artifacts.
 

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texasvarmit

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Absolutely beautiful artifacts! We bottle guys love to see quality glass like your stuff. Post them in the Bottles & Glass forum under Artifacts.

thanks, I need to photograph my "onion bottles" too and post them there as well. Love the old Hutch bottles and black glass.
 

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texasvarmit

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some more of my stuff:
the Ft. Worth downtown found Wrought Iron Hitching post, with a wrought iron ring thru a "drifted" hole in the top, the post is around 5 feet long and stands 3' out of ground (found by my father where the Ft. Worth Water gardens is now, where the old Hells half Acre was located in early 1900s)
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closeup of ring at top:
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other stuff:
old coins mostly Spanish:
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old Chinese Cash coins (Have maybe 30 of these just pulled a few)
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old "wax sealers" most of these are express company sealers of brass:
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more old clay pipes:
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(the 2 white ones at top I think are fairly modern? don't know, ./.....but the grey one bottom right and the Catlin pipe in center found by me neat Cold Springs Road near a bottle dump and railroad....the unique dark glazed one bottom left, bought by me at flea market, has odd symbols and characters on it, initials, palm trees, etc)

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another view of the unique glazed pipe with initials, palm tree? and cross hatching etc.
 

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texasvarmit

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another old Dutch black glass bottle whittled surface, very old maybe 1600s came with Onion bottles:
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old revolver grips, the two black ones off a revolver I regripped, the two brown looking ones, were dug by me downtown fort worth, one has initials carved on the inside (back) of grip
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old "sad iron" found by me metal detecting at the Civil War "fort worth" in north Virginia now in the city of Alexandria near the old colonial house that was at that fort around 1972:
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old padlock found metal detecting:
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closeup of the grey clay pipe found in Ft. Worth Texas at the Cold Springs road site:
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texasvarmit

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the onion bottles, Dutch: (late 1600s)
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texasvarmit

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four old revolvers in my collection, I have a number of WWII long guns also as well as modern handguns, but these are the oldest revolvers, two of these would be "shooters" and two "wall hangers"
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sandchip

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I just saw this thread. Great collection and thanks for taking the time to post it. That hitching post is a treasure.
 

Rasputin

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"He was a collections collector."--Lance Stater. Sorry- I couldn't resist. I know this is an old post but.I.had.to.do.it!
 

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Lamy Lineman

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OMG, really cool. Must have taken a long and fun time. Great bunch of collections. Thanks for posting...
 

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Amazing wowza great collection I'm drooling those pipes and bottles are awesome the black bottle wow. Thanks for sharing them with us
 

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