Revolutionary War Era Stirrup

[comfyinvermont]

Got out to a beautiful old house today for a few hours. The house is probably mid to late 1800's. Coins have been hard to come by for me recently and I believe it is because I have been detecting farmhouses outside of town. My brother has a theory that if you want to find the coins, you need to search the homes in the town. I think he is correct. I did locate a wonderful Revolutionary War era stirrup which is identical to the one shown in Neumann and Kravic's Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, on page 157 #13. This house is not that old by any means, but the road which it's on used to be the Baily Hazen Military road that was built during the revolutionary war. I wonder if this stirrup is from that time period. If only it could talk. Also found a great brass nozzel from an early milk line, (got milk!!!), a boot toe plate a very nice horse bridle rosette, and brass plate to some old screens which says, Porter Screens, Burlington Vt. and a cap that says, "Sold only at the Rexall store". And true to form....no old coins. Thanks for looking....Lance P.S. It's snowing out and supposed to all night. Hope it melts by next weekend.

 

[Hardy]

Congrats on the fine Stirrup! Now thats a RELIC!

 

[Green1]

dude,, that is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet..... all nice finds there

 

[Mighty AP]

Great, great finds Lance! That stirrup matches the one in the book EXACTLY! I realy love that milk nozzle too! Congrats!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Comfy,

that stirrup is nice; yes, if only it could
tell a tale.

Very nice.

have a good un.............

 

[JerV3]

Nice finds Lance. Now that is a house.

You got some nice books on hand.

HH Jer

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Beautiful House....I love your finds ...they are just in awesome shape and so nice. Must be fantastic to be able to hunt such historic sites! WTG

 

[The Seeker]

The condition is by far one of the best I have seen from that time period ! Great Find.......

 

[goldencoin]

cool finds!

HH
-GC

 

[roswellborn]

Terrific finds!

The "hook-y" part of the wooden spindle thing? - is it wooden or leather? If it's leather, I'd say it was from an old spinning wheel. If it's wood too, then I'm clueless.

Those finds are really, really cool. Glad you posted 'em.

HH
Nan

 

[Night Stalker]

Very Nice Relic! I like the historic home also, I bet if it could talk, it could tell a thousand tales !!!!


GREAT FIND..............................

ns

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Congrats on the nice stirrup! Dang, we still have green leaves on the trees and I detected in a short sleeve shirt yesterday. HH, Mike

 

[mchamby]

Very nice relics Lance. Please don't say that s word I'm not ready for it Brrrrrrr.
HH
Mchamby

 

[viper771]

WOW those are some nice relics! They would look great in a display

 

[Burdie]

When did you say you wanted to hunt together at your sites. WOW a nice stirrup indeed.

Burdie

 

[ColonialDude]

great find! Congrats!

and that book is a great one as well. I use it often...although not as often as I'd like! *haha*

 

[tsgman]

Thats a beauty Lance! Tsgman

 

[allen]

beautiful home...nice finds also...

 

[lostdutchman]

Neat stirrup...

 

[Mona Lisa]

Love that toe plate, Lance. That was used back in the days when people were really frugal.

It's snowing pretty hard here right now. OK..I'm going to be nosey.......What's going on next Wednesday?