Another interesting find...

[chukers]

Found this in a yard in my neighborhood...

 

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[jewelerguy]

I'm assuming it's a 1 lb ingot of bullet lead (?)

 

[tomjiggy]

I googled your Lyman ingot and closest I came up with was bullet lead....interesting find though.

 

[cooper36]

good find. with the way things are going we may need alot of them.

 

[Papa Bear]

I agree with Cooper36.

 

[chukers]

you guys are correct... I found it in the ground pretty much as you see it... minus the gold paint... I thought it be more of an interesting conversation piece if it looked like a real gold bar...


Chukers

 

[natepen]

It must be a Wisconsin company since the "N" is backwards!

 

[chukers]

It must be a Wisconsin company since the "N" is backwards!

Lyman Products Corp
475 Smith Street
Middletown, CT 06457

http://www.lymanproducts.com/lyman/main/

 

[Roland58]

Heck, I thought you were talking about the black thing.....that looks like the bottom half of a mouse.

 

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[hikeinmts]

mmmmm nice find, but interesting post, bringing to light Wisconsin vs. Minnesota.....
I thought only Oregon and California had that going.....since we began to so handly trounce their football duffs every year.
(We won't talk about 1960s, 1970s.......out of bounds. ha ha ha)

 

[N.J.THer]

We all dream about finding ingots we just hope for Gold or Silver...lol.

I found an ingot of lead a few years back but mine was stamped Tatham and when researching I found a lead product company called Tatham Brothers that operated in Philadelphia in the late 1800s. It is still one of my favorite unique finds.

Congrats

NJ

 

[Chuck In Oregon]

Lyman is a great old company. You've gotta wonder how the heck this ingot wound up buried in the yard. It's typical of what a caster would have, mostly from melting and storing lead that you accumulate from time to time. I've known a lot of bullet casters and a couple of guys who cast their own sinkers. It's a labor of love, not profit, unless the scrap lead is free. If you water hunt a lot, it would be a good use for all those sinkers that you find. Good save.

Chuck