any ideas?

buzzgator · Mar 10, 2010

what period would this have been from? I have found flat buttons and a tag from 1909 and black glass in the same site...

creskol · Mar 10, 2010

What is it? Sorta hard to tell. Thanks

DCMatt · Mar 10, 2010

I'm guessing its a lead bale seal, but sort of hard to tell. Need better pics.

DCMatt

buzzgator · Mar 10, 2010

it is a lead seal but what period would it have been from? it has no design or anything else on it just a small circular indentation along one side. sorry about the pictures one day I am going to invest in a decent camera instead of cell phone cam....

Iron Patch · Mar 10, 2010

buzzgator said:
it is a lead seal but what period would it have been from? it has no design or anything else on it just a small circular indentation along one side. sorry about the pictures one day I am going to invest in a decent camera instead of cell phone cam....

Hard to say because they were used for so many years. The only hint is it being thick, which means most likely after the Colonial period, possibly well after. There might be some early ones that are made similar, but odds are it's not really old.

DCMatt · Mar 10, 2010

buzzgator said:
it is a lead seal but what period would it have been from? it has no design or anything else on it just a small circular indentation along one side. sorry about the pictures one day I am going to invest in a decent camera instead of cell phone cam....

I will be nearly impossible to date the item if it has no markings on it. Use the other relics found near it to make your best guess.

DCMatt

CRUSADER · Mar 10, 2010

Iron Patch said:
buzzgator said:

it is a lead seal but what period would it have been from? it has no design or anything else on it just a small circular indentation along one side. sorry about the pictures one day I am going to invest in a decent camera instead of cell phone cam....

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Hard to say because they were used for so many years. The only hint is it being thick, which means most likely after the Colonial period, possibly well after. There might be some early ones that are made similar, but odds are it's not really old.

agreed most likely no older than 1900.